Saving and Being Safe Away from Home : : Savings and Insurance Associations in Ethiopia and Its Diaspora.

• Superior document: Kultur und Soziale Praxis Series
• Author: Glück, Kim.
• TeilnehmendeR: Thubauville, Sophia.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und Soziale Praxis Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 pages)

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Saving and insuring: Towards a 'good life' and a 'good future'
• Research on informal saving and insurance associations in Ethiopia
• Informal saving and insurance associations in Ethiopia's diaspora and beyond
• Contributions
• Figures
• Bibliography
• Saving and being safe in Ethiopia
• Iddir funerary insurance as uncaptured civil society
• Introduction
• Institutions with clear parallels worldwide
• Urban origins in Addis Ababa
• Single or multiethnic origins?
• The expansion and transformation of iddirs in the 20th century
• The imperial period
• The Derg period
• The EPRDF period
• Recent evidence
• Growth in number, spatial diffusion, and density of iddirs
• The WIDE longitudinal evidence
• Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Informal savings and insurance associations
• Introduction
• Informal savings and insurance associations
• Iddir: indigenous life insurance
• Equb: indigenous saving institution
• Informal institutions: future‐making and dreams of migration
• Informal vis‐a-vis formal savings institutions
• Continuity and changing trends among iddirs and equbs
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Wijjo and kochoo
• Introduction
• Description of the study area
• Wijjo: Women's ROSCAs
• Kochoo: Men's ROSCAs
• The Socio‐economic significance of wijjo and kochoo
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• The activities, benefits, and challenges of Awada women's self‐help groups in empowering women in Sidama region, southern Ethiopia
• Introduction
• The nexus between empowerment and SHGs
• Awada women's SHG activities, benefits, and challenges
• Social benefits
• Case 1
• Economic benefits
• Case 2
• Political benefits
• Case 3
• Challenges encountered
• Conclusion and recommendations
• Tables
• Figures
• Bibliography.
• Saving and being safe in the Ethiopian diaspora
• 'Wealth in people'
• Introduction
• Equbs in Ethiopia, L.A., and Seattle
• Equbs in L.A. and Seattle
• 'Wealth in people' - The evaluation process of equb actors
• Equbs/ROSCAs working as forms of investment
• Making diasporic communities through equbs/ROSCAs: Little Ethiopia and other immigrant communities
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Solidarity until the end
• Introduction
• Ethiopians in southern California
• Bereavement as creator of social relationships
• The rise of Ethiopian insurance associations in the USA
• The power of solidarity
• The limits of solidarity
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Islands of hope
• Introduction
• Israel as the promised land
• The crux of the promised land
• Saving for the future - Ethiopian and Eritrean migrant workers in Israel
• Israel as workaround
• Precarious socio‐political situation and contradictory legal status
• Equb in Israel - time and space in which money "is eaten"
• Temporality of hope - "Equb takes care of you 365 days a year"
• Trust in hope - Hope in trust
• "Why should I trust the state?"
• "I don't trust anything institutional"
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• "Trust a man after you bury him"
• Introduction
• Some theoretical considerations
• Trust and mistrust
• Ethiopian Middle East migration trends
• Some features of equb associations in the Emirates
• The significance of ROSCAs for Ethiopians in the Emirates
• Elements of trust in saving institutions
• The overall breakdown of cultural norms
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Savings (equb) and insurance (iddir) associations of Eritreans in Germany
• Introduction
• Research objective and methodology
• Eritrean communities in the diaspora at a glance
• Research findings on equb and iddir associations in Germany.
• Case 1: Mahiber Qudus Michael (Saint Michael) of Segheneiti
• Case 2: The Mahiber Mehazut (Association of Friends)
• Case 3: The equb family Tesfa Giorgis
• The administration of equb and iddir associations
• Internal regulations and official registration
• Members' contributions and payments to members
• The Covid‑19 pandemic and its effect on associations' activities
• Conclusion
• Figures
• Tables
• Bibliography
• Saving and being safe beyond Ethiopia
• Spatial manifestation of self‐governance groups
• Introduction
• Methodology and case studies
• Section I: Addis Ababa
• Geographic and substantive focus
• Co‑creating iddirs
• Co‑operating iddirs
• Co‑opting iddirs
• Section II: Nairobi
• Logic of organization
• The Co‑production framework
• Co‑operating community organizations
• Co‑opting community organizations
• Conclusion
• Figures
• Bibliography
• Caring for the future
• The new scramble for African customers and the quest for social security
• Research outline
• Namibia and the market for social insurance - What makes it so attractive to Namibian customers?
• Historical background
• The attractiveness of formal social insurance
• Saving for the future and last wills and testaments
• Analysis
• Conclusion: Caring for the future - Who cares? Whose future?
• Figures
• Bibliography
• Author's biographies.