Intercontinental Netizenship: Digitisation of political transnationalism of Europe-based African migrants against homeland authoritarianism

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dc.contributor.authorTshimpaka, Leon Mwamba
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-22T12:59:57Z
dc.date.available2024-02-22T12:59:57Z
dc.date.issued2023-09
dc.departmentSouth African Institute of International Affairs
dc.description.abstractThis paper seeks to understand the digitisation of transnational political activities of Europe-based African migrants, using internet as a political tool to fight against homeland authoritarian practices from abroad. It does so by investigating how Europe-based Congolese migrants put their transnational political practices on digital platforms to mobilise against what they perceive to be authoritarian practices back home. Nowadays, remittances are no longer the only contribution of African migrants toward their countries of origin from the diaspora. Whether in person or online, African migrants have become much more involved in transnational political activities to counter or shape and influence their homeland governance systems. Drawing on the notions of internet politics, political transnationalism of migrants and digital governance, this paper reviews political regimes and the digital space in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 1990 to 2019; the period marking both the democratic transition, the decline of democracy and the emergence of netizenship and internet activism. These have triggered Europe-based Congolese migrants to devise intercontinental digital strategies to demand homeland democratic change from abroad. Based on qualitative desktop review and content analysis, this paper has identified different kinds of transnational digital strategies exhibited by Europe-based Congolese migrants during their digital engagement against what they perceived to be homeland authoritarian practices from abroad.
dc.description.librarianMM2024
dc.description.sponsorshipHanns Seidel Stiftung
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/37705
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTayarisha Working Paper Series | Number 2023/015
dc.rights©2023 Tayarisha African Centre of Excellence in Digital Governance
dc.schoolWits School of Governance
dc.subjectAfrican Governance
dc.subjectDigital Age
dc.subjectIntercontinental netizenship
dc.subjectDigital governance
dc.subjectPolitical transnationalism
dc.subjectAuthoritarianism
dc.subjectEurope-based Congolese migrants
dc.subject.otherSDG-9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
dc.titleIntercontinental Netizenship: Digitisation of political transnationalism of Europe-based African migrants against homeland authoritarianism
dc.typeWorking Paper
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