Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship in Sub-Saharan Africa

doi:10.1093/wber/lhae014

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Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship in Sub-Saharan Africa

creativework.datePublished	Published: 04 April 2024
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dc.contributor.author	Bertocchi, Graziella
dc.contributor.author	Dimico, Arcangelo
dc.contributor.author	Tedeschi, Gian Luca
dc.date.accessioned	2025-02-11T16:54:12Z
dc.date.available	2025-02-11T16:54:12Z
dc.date.issued	2025-02-11
dc.description.abstract	This study explores the factors that shape natives’ attitudes toward citizenship acquisition for foreigners. The hypothesis is that, in Sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents a deep determinant of contemporary attitudes toward citizenship through a proximate determinant: the level of trust. Accordingly, individuals belonging to ethnic groups with higher exposure to historical slave exports are more likely to exhibit a sense of distrust toward strangers and are consequently more likely to oppose citizenship laws that favor the inclusion of foreigners. The findings indicate that individuals with higher levels of trust toward other people do exhibit more favorable attitudes regarding the acquisition of citizenship at birth for children of foreigners, that these attitudes are also negatively related to the intensity of the slave trade, and that the underlying inverse relationship between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Other factors such as conflict, kinship tightness, and witchcraft beliefs, which could also influence attitudes toward citizenship through the channel of trust, do not yield the same distinct pattern of associations as observed with the slave trade.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099705202052514841/IDU103893b1811813149f3192831a5a240e56bd4
dc.identifier.citation	The World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/42790
dc.identifier.issn	0258-6770
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42790
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	CITIZENSHIP
dc.subject	TRUST
dc.subject	SLAVE TRADE
dc.subject	MIGRATION
dc.subject	ETHNICITY
dc.title	Strangers and Foreigners	en
dc.title.subtitle	Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship in Sub-Saharan Africa	en
dc.type	Journal Article
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okr.date.disclosure	2025-02-11
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1093/wber/lhae014
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okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.geographical	Africa
okr.topic	Law and Development::Administrative & Regulatory Law
okr.topic	Culture and Development::Ethics & Belief Systems
okr.topic	Culture and Development::Indigenous Peoples
okr.unit	Off of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
okr.volume	39(1)
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