Adangba, Victor Boudjou (2008) An Ethics of Hospitality in the Context of Immigration: The Case of Burkinabe Immigrants in Ivory Coast from 1990 to 2002. PhD thesis, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.
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Abstract
The global system of nation-states reflects the incongruence in the modem conception of citizenship, which appeals to the universal character of human rights while recognizing the particular political unit, territorially determined, and offering citizenship based on residence. Thus, political membership as defined in these nation-states tends to restrain meaningful political participation by non-citizens, leaving many of them at the fringes of society. This dissertation seeks to offer a local solution to a global problem by developing a notion of citizenship through the convergence of identity and rights based on relationality rather than residence. Since the colonial era, Ivory Coast, a country in West Africa, has received a constant flow of immigrants from neighboring countries, particularly Burkina Faso. These immigrants have contributed significantly to the social, economic, political, and cultural growth of their host country. But, nationalistic attitudes against these immigrants displayed between 1990 and 2002 have contradicted Christian understanding of the common good, undermined a genuine search for national identity, and betrayed the basic value of hospitality of the Akan people who represent 42% of Ivorian population. To address this situation, a reconceptualization of citizenship in Ivory Coast is necessary, starting with a recovery of state authority and its capacity to extend citizenship to immigrants. This can only be achieved if citizenship is determined by hospitality.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | burkinabe immigration into ivory coast 10 a socio-historical description, ivory coast before 1990, ivory coast from 1990 to 2002, burkinabe immigrants in ivory coast, ethical analysis - an inclusive and just political membership, institutional arrangements, the rights of the vulnerable immigrants, conceptual reconstruction of hospitality, virtue of hospitality: the akan model, hospitality as a hermeneutical tool, |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | JHI Africa |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2014 14:29 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2019 11:29 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/32 |
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