“Operation Eagle Eye”: Border Citizenship and Cross-border Voting in Ghana’s Fourth Republic

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dc.contributor.authorAdotey, E.
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-19T11:53:39Z
dc.date.available2024-08-19T11:53:39Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the role of elections in bordering through disputes over cross-border voting since Ghana returned to a multi-party democracy in 1992. It uses case studies from some communities that border Togo in the Volta Region of Ghana which is the epicenter of alleged cross-border voting. In these communities, “border citizenship” is expressed through the deployment of ritual space, social and political relations which is across national borders. But this begs the question of whether border citizens view voting as a right or not, or more specifically, contest the border by participating in elections on either side of the border. This article argues that border citizens are not only involved in contesting the border; one can assume to have a border citizenship and still respect the border in elections by refusing the act of cross-border voting. This study not only contributes to border studies by highlighting the importance of electoral politics in the bordering process but it also brings to light the complexities of cross-border voting, since it shows that border residents in the Ghana-Togo borderland communities do not all perceive cross-border voting positivelyen_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2020.1861551
dc.identifier.urihttps://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/42303
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Borderlands Studiesen_US
dc.subjectGhana-Togo borderen_US
dc.subjectcross-border votingen_US
dc.subjectborder citizenshipen_US
dc.title“Operation Eagle Eye”: Border Citizenship and Cross-border Voting in Ghana’s Fourth Republicen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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