Soldiers, martyrs, traitors, and exiles
Subtitle: political conflict in Eritrea and the diaspora
By: Tricia Redeker Hepner.
Series: The ethnography of political violence
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780812241716
Subjects: Nationalism -- Eritrea; Eritreans -- United States -- Social conditions; Eritreans -- United States -- Political activity; Civil society -- Eritrea; Transnationalism; Eritrea -- Emigration and immigration; United States -- Emigration and immigration; Eritrea -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Eritrea and exile; title: A tale of two fronts : nationalism and political identity in the ELF and EPLF; title: Transnational Tegadelti : fighters and exiles in the 1970s; title: Eritrea in exile : refugees and community building in the United States; title: Ties that bind and sometimes choke : transnational dissonance in Eritrea and exile; title: A painful paradox : transnational civil society and the sovereign state.