Silken citizenship: Civic loyalty in a migrant-sending country

• In Event: Development, Democracy, and Citizenship in Africa

Brief Overview

What does citizenship mean in developing democracies? Using an original corpus of 400 Senegalese respondents, I uncover an ambivalent civic regard, with respondents at once affirming the state's duty to provide while distrusting its capacity to lead.

Author

• Camille DeJarnett, Stanford University