“Ambiguous citizens”: Kenyan Somalis and the question of belonging

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Economic and business conditions
  • Civil and political rights

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Internal migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Attitudes, migration and migrants
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Socio-economic inequality, mobility and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Social cohesion
  • Demographic outcomes of migration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism

Migration governance

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Asylum regimes

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology

Methods

• Either/Mixed

  • Historical

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Biography
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)

• Types of study

  • Multi-sited

Geographies

• UN Countries

  • Kenya
  • Somalia