Workbook
For Eritrean and Ethiopian Families in the Diaspora
The Border Between Countries and the One Between Generations
The border between countries does not have to be the border between generations.
For the Eritrean or Ethiopian family in the diaspora — separately or in mixed households — asking what their cultural identity means when a border was drawn through it.
The Name It First Experience
Your family carries Eritrea or Ethiopia — or both, depending on when borders were drawn and where your family was when they were. This workbook gives your family a structured space to name what your specific East African cultural identity means in your household, what you are choosing to carry forward, and what each generation contributes. Grounded in Cross, Helms, Berry, Brah, Hall, Hepner, and Lyons, you leave holding The Habesha Family Accord. The output is not a resolution of history. It is a signed document.
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Sample questions
- What does your family carry from Eritrea or Ethiopia — and how does the political history between the two countries live in your household?
- What does your specific cultural identity mean — Habesha, Eritrean, Tigrinya-speaking, Oromo, Amhara, or something your family names differently — and how do you carry it in the diaspora?
- What do you want the next generation to understand about where your family comes from — and what is at risk of being lost?
Research basis
Cross (1971, 1991) Nigrescence Model / Helms (1990) racial identity statuses / Berry (1997) acculturation strategies / Crenshaw (1989, 1991) intersectionality / Brah (1996) Cartographies of Diaspora / Hall (1990) Cultural Identity and Diaspora / cultural frameworks of Habesha identity, Tigrinya, Amhara, Oromo, and Tigre ethnic identity / Eritrean diaspora identity (Hepner, 2009) / Ethiopian diaspora identity / Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict and diaspora family dynamics (Lyons, 2007) / East African diaspora community in US and UK.
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