Mental and physical health consequences of repatriation for Vietnamese returnees: A natural experiment approach.
While there is much speculation about the potential consequences of repatriation, systematic comparisons of health outcomes employing standard measures and appropriate population-based samples of migration returnees and non-returnees are virtually non-existent. This study addresses this significant gap in the empirical literature by employing standard measures of mental and physical health outcomes for comparable samples of … Continue reading Mental and physical health consequences of repatriation for Vietnamese returnees: A natural experiment approach. →
Masculinity on unstable ground: Young refugee men in Nairobi, Kenya.
A gender perspective in refugee studies usually conjures up images of refugee women. Such images are an outcome of the association of vulnerability with women and children. Yet, it is not only refugee women who face monumental challenges in the country of asylum; refugee men also encounter a wide range of problems. Exile comes with … Continue reading Masculinity on unstable ground: Young refugee men in Nairobi, Kenya. →
Sedentary policies and transnational relations: A non-sustainable case of return to Bosnia.
The main point of this article is to look at the tensions between many refugees transnational orientation on one hand, and the sedentary understanding of living and belonging in different policy practices that govern refugees movements on the other. The article, based on ethnographic fieldwork both in Finland and in Bosnia, provides a detailed analysis … Continue reading Sedentary policies and transnational relations: A non-sustainable case of return to Bosnia. →
Self-settled refugees in Uganda: An alternative approach to displacement?
This paper investigates the complex security and economic dynamics that influence the lives and opportunities of self-settled refugees living in Uganda. It focuses on the opportunities and problems faced by self-settled refugees, and questions the assumption that Uganda’s current local settlement policy is best suited to the country’s social, economic and political realities. It suggests … Continue reading Self-settled refugees in Uganda: An alternative approach to displacement? →
Liberian families in Ghana: The implications of family demands and capabilities for return to Liberia.
In the summer of 2007, focus groups and interviews were conducted with Liberian refugee women living in Buduburam Refugee Camp, Ghana. The purpose of this study was to learn about the daily experiences of families in protracted refugee situtations, and their perceptions of return to Liberia. The results offer a glimpse of the demands placed … Continue reading Liberian families in Ghana: The implications of family demands and capabilities for return to Liberia. →
Strategies of invisibilization: How Ethiopia’s resettlement programme hides the poorest of the poor.
This paper examines the process by which the poorest of the poor in Ethiopia’s food insecure regions are made invisible through their very participation in a programme whose explicit aim is to help deliver them from vulnerability. Those targeted for support progressively lose their status and agency as people of concern to governmental welfare bodies … Continue reading Strategies of invisibilization: How Ethiopia’s resettlement programme hides the poorest of the poor. →
Facilitating youth participation in a context of forced migration: A photovoice project in Northern Uganda.
This paper describes a documentary photography (Photovoice) project conducted in 2007 with young people (ages 12 to 16) living in an internal displacement camp in northern Uganda during a time of great transition following more than 20 years of civil war. Twelve students were randomly selected from three schools after several weeks of instruction in … Continue reading Facilitating youth participation in a context of forced migration: A photovoice project in Northern Uganda. →
The invisible refugee camp: Durable solutions for Boreah residuals in Guinea.
What happens when refugees do not repatriate post-conflict? For those who remain in refugee camps, the remaining, durable solutions of resettlement and local integration may be neither feasible nor desirable. This study of Boreah camp in Guinea illustrates how refugees and refugee camps become invisible from the perspective of the host government and non-governmental organizations … Continue reading The invisible refugee camp: Durable solutions for Boreah residuals in Guinea. →
Back home? Refugees experiences of their first visit back to their country of origin.
This paper argues that the first visit back home is important for refugees because it acts as a catalyst for renewed engagements with host country and country of origin. The study shows that conditions in both countries impact on decision-making and ultimately that integration and return can coexist. The first re-connection with home is described … Continue reading Back home? Refugees experiences of their first visit back to their country of origin. →
