The politics of transnational affective capital: digital connectivity among young Somalis stranded in Ethiopia

K. Leurs
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This article presents an explorative qualitative case study of how sixteen young Somali migrants stranded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia feel about staying in touch with loved ones abroad using Internet-based transnational communication. Left-behind during transit migration from Somalia to overseas, at this moment they can only digitally connect with contacts living inside for example dreamed diasporic locations in Europe. Based on in-depth interviews, a focus group and concept maps drawn by informants the ambivalent workings of affects spurred by transnational communication are explored. The intense feelings of togetherness originating in Skype video-chat, mobile phone calls and Facebook use are conceptualized with the notion of transnational affective capital – one of the only sources of capital the informants have. The ambivalence of transnational affective capital is scrutinized by exploring whether such connectivity routines offer trust, enable anxiety management and promote ‘ontological security’. Alternatively, the question arises whether transnational communication may further exacerbate ontological insecurity: discomfort, unsettlement and increased anxiety related to the precarious situation of being stranded.
跨国情感资本的政治:滞留在埃塞俄比亚的索马里青年的数字连接
这篇文章提出了一个探索性质的案例研究,探讨16名被困在埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴的年轻索马里移民如何使用基于互联网的跨国交流与国外的亲人保持联系。在从索马里移民到海外的过程中,他们被留在了家乡,此时此刻,他们只能通过数字方式与生活在那里的联系人联系,比如梦想中的欧洲散居地。基于深度访谈,焦点小组和由线人绘制的概念图,探讨了跨国交流所激发的影响的矛盾作用。源于Skype视频聊天、手机通话和Facebook使用的强烈的团聚感被跨国情感资本的概念概念化了——这是举报人拥有的唯一资本来源之一。跨国情感资本的矛盾心理是通过探索这种连接惯例是否提供信任,使焦虑管理和促进“本体论安全”来审查的。另一个问题是,跨国交流是否会进一步加剧本体论上的不安全感:与被困的危险处境有关的不适、不安和增加的焦虑。
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