ECAS 2009
3rd European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

">Panel 58: Diasporic political engagement in Africa Social and economic remittances and their roles in ‘development’, ‘democratization’, and ‘peace building’ (Markus Höhne)

Panel Organisers: Markus Höhne 

Members of the African diaspora contribute to the livelihoods of their families, economic development, and the transfer and transformation of social and political values and ideas to and at home. This workshop investigates the positive and negative impacts of these transnational activities on development, democratization, and peace-building in their countries of origin.

Accepted Abstracts

Migrant Associations between the West African Sahelregion and Paris
 
Setting a Social Reform Agenda The Rights-based Peace Building Activities of the Ethiopian Muslims diaspora
 
Limits to political engagement
 
Education and peacebuilding in Somaliland
Diaspora and civil society development: Somali diaspora organizations in the UK and Finland