When Refugees Go Home
African Experiences
Published on 17. November 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-85255-222-3 (ISBN)
Description
Examines refugees' own strategies for return that do not always relate to formal repatriation schemes.
It is well known that there are millions of refugees in Africa. It is less well known that there are milions of refugees who have returned home. This book puts these 'returnees' on the map, documenting some of what happens to people when they go back to their countries of origin and start to pick up the pieces of their lives.
Published in association with UNRISD; North America: Africa World Press
It is well known that there are millions of refugees in Africa. It is less well known that there are milions of refugees who have returned home. This book puts these 'returnees' on the map, documenting some of what happens to people when they go back to their countries of origin and start to pick up the pieces of their lives.
Published in association with UNRISD; North America: Africa World Press
Reviews / Votes
... a welcome addition to this growing body of research. Indeed, it underscores the reality that refugee populations are diverse in nature, that strategies for return are often informal, though not always unrelated to formal repatriation schemes, and that issues of economic viability, as often as security - though these are also related - influence refugee decisions about repatriation. - -- Robert F. Gorman * AFRICAN AFFAIRS * La grande force des auteurs est que ce sont des praticiens de terrain, nourrissant leurs textes d'une infinite d'informations ou de renseignements introuvables dans d'autres ouvrages. - -- Rene Pelissier * REVUE FRANCAISE D'HISTOIRE D'OUTRE-MER *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
50 s/w Abbildungen, 9 s/w Zeichnungen
50 b/w, 9 line illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
312 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-222-3 (9780852552223)
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11/1994
James Currey
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Content
Introduction by T. Allen & H. Morsink - Repatriation: Not So Simple! by J.R. Rogge - Ad hoc Assistance to Return Movements & Long-Term Development Programmes by B.N. Stein - The Return of Algerian Refugees following Independ ence in 1962 by A. Bouhouche - Crisis of Expectations by J .O. Akol - Homecoming in the Luwero Triangle by J.B. Kaber a & C. Muyanja - The Desire to Return to S. T. Makanya - Repatriation & Reconstruction in Zimbabwe during th e 1980s by J. Jackson - Repatriation to Mozambique by K.B. Wilson - Influences of Economy & State on the Reinteg ration of Repatriated Namibians by C. Tapscott - Returning Exiles in Namibia by R. Preston - The Reaccommodation of Ghanaian Returnees from Nigeria in 1983 and 1985 by K. Arh in - Forced Mass Repatriation of Migrant Workers in Longer Term Perspective by N. van Hear - Studying Repatriation a s Part of African Social History by T. Ranger - Bibliograp hy