Feminized Migrations from Post-Independence Eritrea

Since the dawn of the millennium, youth irregular migration has captured public attention both through extensive media coverage and scholarly works. Deploying a state-centric perspective, Eritrea has, in those narratives, been dubbed as 'a country whose citizens want to forget.' Such narratives and discourses invoke the civil and political rights violations that the repressive Eritrean politico-military elites have exercised since 2001 as the main culprit to the human tragedy that Eritrean irregular youth migrants experience during, en route and after their flight in search of protection and fulfilled life. Strikingly such narratives generally depict that all Eritrean youths - irrespective of their gender and other axes of differentiation - are "pushed out" owing to indiscriminate state violence.