Civicness, social remittances and transborder citizenship in Somalia

Migrant and diaspora populations through their local and transnational connections have been recognised for some time as intimately implicated in processes of global transformation. In conflict settings, such populations, through their transnational engagement have been positioned as belligerents as well as being instrumental to peace. The social theorist Nina Glick Schiller frames such transmigrants as a social force ‘reshaping the workings of legal domains in more than one state’ (2005: 48).1