When Refugees Go Home: African Experiences

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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
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Overview

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
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  • ISBN-13: 9780852552223
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
  • Publication date: 11/17/2004
  • Pages: 320

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Maps & Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on UNRISD
List of Contributors
1 Introduction: When refugees go home 1
2 Repatriation of refugees: A not so simple 'optimum' solution 14
3 Ad hoc assistance to return movements & long-term development programmes 50
4 The return of Algerian refugees following independence in 1962 71
5 A crisis of expectations: Returning to Southern Sudan in the 1970s 78
6 Homecoming in the Luwero Triangle: Experiences of the displaced population of central Uganda following the National Resistance Army victory in 1986 96
7 The desire to return: Effects of experiences in exile on refugees repatriating to Zimbabwe in the early 1980s 105
8 Repatriation & reconstruction in Zimbabwe during the 1980s 126
9 Repatriation to Mozambique: Refugee initiative & agency planning in Milange District 1988-1991 167
10 Refugees & returness as social agents: The case of the Jehovah's Witnesses from Milange 237
11 A tale of two homecomings: Influences of the economy & state on the reintegration of repatriated Namibian exiles, 1989-1991 251
12 Returning exiles in Namibia since independence 260
13 The reaccomodation of Ghanaian returnees from Nigeria in 1983 & 1985 268
14 Forced mass repatriation of migrant workers in longer term perspective 276
15 Studying repatriation as part of African social history 279
Additional Bibliography 295
Index 297
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