Sam Tecle

From 'remittance' to 'tax': the shifting meanings and strategies of capture of the Eritrean transnational party-state African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 6 (2) 189-207

For decades, mass out migration has remained a defining characteristic of Eritrea. The country's first major refugee crisis occurred in the early 1980s, in the midst of its liberation movement. Upon gaining resettlement in the industrialized world, Eritreans overwhelming continued their support of the liberation war, both financially and politically. Since independence, the ruling government […]

"Castrating Blackness: Surveillance, Profiling and Management in the Canadian Context" in Spaces of Surveillance—States and Selves, 187-210

Includes an afterword written by Professor Vian Bakir, Bangor University Offers a unique insight into the ways in which identity has been shaped and defined by changing technology and its resultant effect on bodies. This is the first multidisciplinary account of how surveillance has affected identity The systematic approach from one area of study to […]