Mobilizing Home: Diasporic Agitations and the Global Remakings of Postwar Southeastern Nigeria. (4th March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lu, Vivian Chenxue
• Is Part Of: African studies review. Volume 65:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 118
• Page End: 142
• Publication Date: 2022-03-04
• Subjects: diaspora -- cultural associations -- civil war -- migration -- south-south globalization -- China-Africa Studies -- Nigeria; African philology -- Periodicals; Africa -- Periodicals; 960.05
• DOI: 10.1017/asr.2021.118
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0002-0206

Abstract

Abstract: In the context of shifting global geographies of labor and political volatility, Nigerian migrant associations play a significant role in organizing diasporic life. Yet, far from being a culturally static feature, Igbo Nigerian associations emerge through diasporic agitations, or dynamic mobilizations around particular events, crises, and projects that deliberately engage the postcolonial state. Lu first reconsiders the significance of 1970s post-civil war reconstruction in southeastern Nigeria before tracing subsequent transformations in flexible diasporic organizations within Global South locations such as China and Dubai. These agile and multi-scalar diasporic mobilizations enable their members to negotiate the nexus of postcolonial politics and transnational capitalism.