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Since 2005, the Eritrean state has implemented measures against the increasing desertion of conscripts by retaliating against deserters' families. This article explores the fears spread by this measure in Eritrea and analyzes how people have interpreted its erratic enforcement, including in those countries to which deserters have fled in massive numbers to seek political asylum. The retaliation has served to 'export' fears about the Eritrean state's surveillance abroad and has reshaped political imagination concerning the power of the Eritrean authoritarian state in the diaspora. I argue that imaginings about the state play a crucial role by curbing the political dissidence of new exiles and by giving rise to new fault lines in the diaspora communities in ways that are beneficial to the current Eritrean leadership.

Cet article aborde la question de la production de l'insécurité ressentie par les conscrits en Érythrée ainsi que les stratégies que ces derniers développent pour évaluer les risques qu'ils encourent. Au-delà des dysfonctionnements institutionnels de la surveillance et de la répression policière, les stratégies pour décrypter l'arbitraire étatique renforcent le sentiment d'insécurité et forgent la représentation d'un État omniscient. Ces logiques, qui catalysent les peurs, la suspicion, et favorisent la délation, représentent le modus operandi despotique qui caractérise un État policier en Afrique, imposant des limites aux relations de confiance entre les individus.

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In recent years, political and social theory has been transformed by the heterogeneous approaches to feeling and emotion jointly referred to as 'affect theory'. These range from psychological and social-constructivist approaches to emotion to feminist and post-human perspectives. Covering a wide spectrum of topics and ethnographic contexts—from engineering in the Andes to household rituals in rural China, from South African land restitution to migrant living in Moscow, and from elections in El Salvador to online and offline surveillance among political refugees from Uzbekistan and Eritrea—the chapters in this volume interrogate this 'affective turn' through the lens of fine-grained ethnographies of the state. The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life