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The Eritrean National Service - Servitude for "the common good" and the Youth Exodus (Hardcover)
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The Eritrean National Service - Servitude for "the common good" and the Youth Exodus (Hardcover)
Series: Eastern Africa Series
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Gives voice to the conscripts who are forced to serve indefinitely
without remuneration under the ENS in a powerful critical survey of
its effect from the Liberation Struggle to today. The Eritrean
National Service (ENS) lies at the core of the post-independence
state, not only supplying its military, but affecting every aspect
of the country's economy, its social services, its public sector
and its politics. Over half the workforce are forcibly enrolled
into it by the government, driving the country's youth to escape
national service by seeking employment and asylum elsewhere. Yet
how did the ENS, which began during the 1961-91 liberation struggle
as part of the idea of the "common good" - in which individual
interests were sacrificed in pursuit of the grand scheme of
independence and the country's development - degenerate into forced
labour and a modern form ofslavery? And why, when Eritrea no longer
faces existential threat, does the government continue to demand
such service from its citizens? This book provides for the first
time an in-depth and critical scrutiny of the ENS'sachievements and
failures and its overarching impact on the social fabric of
Eritrea. The author discusses the historical backdrop to the ENS
and the rationales underlying it; its goals and objectives; its
transformative effects,as well as its impact on the country's
defence capability, national unity, national identity construction
and nation-building. He also analyses the extent to which the
national service functions as an effective mechanism of
transmitting the core values of the liberation struggle to the
conscripts and through them to the rest of country's population.
Finally, the book assesses whether the core aims and objectives of
the ENS proclaimed by various governmentshave been or are in the
process of being accomplished and, drawing on the testimony of the
hitherto voiceless conscripts themselves, its impact on their lives
and livelihoods. GAIM KIBREAB is Professor of Research andDirector
of Refugee Studies, School of Law and Social Science, London South
Bank University. He is the author of Eritrea: A Dream Deferred
(James Currey, 2009) and People on the Edge in the Horn (James
Currey, 1996).
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