Transborder Citizenship and Activism: Political Engagement and Resistance in the Somali Environment

This article explores Somali transborder/transnational activism through the role of two individual actors, drawing upon their life histories and a selection initiatives they have been involved in over time. The Somali-populated Horn Africa provides highly complex environment for production identities, based on its ethno-linguistic heritage, clan affiliations, Islam variable state-like affiliations what is politically fragmented context. These multiple forms identity incorporate diasporic non-diasporic all which complicates notions citizenship. draws social cultural citizenship (rather than legal-bureacratic) to argue that agency expressed by protagonists usefully understood as form evolving transborder Furthermore, utilizes concept ‘social remittances’ suggest quality behaviour our citizens ‘civicness’, reflective an engagement with resistance volatile exclusionary politics conflict affected contexts. Utilizing enables us explore how individuals networks are part, pursue different strategies, varying effects, time settings. .