Refugees & Transformation Of Societies

by Essed, Philomena; Frerks, Georg; Schrijvers, Joke

• ISBN13: 9781571818669
• ISBN10: 1571818669
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-30
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west. Exploring experiences, interpretations and practices of "refugees," "the internally displaced," and "returnees" in, or emerging from, societies in violent conflict, this volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies and encourages new developments in refugee studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Introduction: Refugees, Agency and Social Transformation
Philomena Essed, Georg Frerks and Joke Schrijvers	1	(18)
Part I: 'Refugeehood': Claiming Spaces and Responsibilities
1 Refugeehood, Loss and Social Change: Eritrean Refugees and Returnees
Gaim Kibreab	19	(12)
2 Repatriation: Angolan Refugees or Migrating Villagers?
Oliver Bakewell	31	(11)
3 Space and Movement in the Sri Lankan Conflict
Oivind Fuglerud	42	(11)
4 Contested Refugee Status: Human Rights, Ethics and Social Responsibilities
Philomena Essed and Rianne Wesenbeek	53	(16)
Part II: Redefining Identities and Social Relationships
5 A Life Project out of Turmoil: Displacement and Gender in Colombia
Donny Meertens	69	(12)
6 Permanent Refugees: Female Camp Inhabitants in Bihar
Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff	81	(13)
7 New Opportunities: Angry Young Men in a Tanzanian Refugee Camp
Simon Turner	94	(12)
8 Identities and the Sense of Belonging: Iranian Women Activists in Exile
Halleh Ghorashi	106	(15)
Part III: Discouraging Policies; Empowering Agency
9 A Community Empowered? The Bosnia Project in the U.K.
Lynnette Kelly	121	(14)
10 Refugee-generated Return: The Case of Guatemala
Anita Rapone and Charles Simpson	135	(16)
11 Between Victim and Agent: Women's Ambivalent Empowerment in Displacement
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake	151	(16)
Part IV: Challenging Dichotomies: Relief versus Development
12 Refugees between Relief and Development
Georg Frerks	167	(12)
13 Rethinking the Relation between Relief and Development: 'Villagisation' in Rwanda
Dorothea Hilhorst and Mathijs van Leeuwen	179	(11)
14 Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid: Supporting Internal Refugees in Sri Lanka
Joke Schrijvers	190	(11)
Bibliography	201	(14)
Notes on Contributors	215	(4)
Index	219