This Place Will Become Home : : Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia / / Laura C. Hammond.

How do communities grapple with the challenges of reconstruction after conflicts? In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of refugee repatriation anywhere in the world, Laura C. Hammond follows the story of Ada Bai, a returnee settlement with a population of some 7,500 people. In the days...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 4 charts/graphs, 3 maps, 14 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transcriptions and Use of Tigrinya Terms
  • Introduction
  • 1. Narratives of Displacement
  • 2. Life in the Sudan Camps
  • 3. A Patchwork of Emplacements
  • 4. The Household Food Economy
  • 5. "We HaveEach Lost a Child": Birth, Death, and Life-Cycle Rituals
  • 6. Ada Bai's Place in the Wider World
  • Conclusion: Forced Migration, Anthropology, and the Politics of International Assistance
  • Epilogue: The Ethiopia-Eritrea War in Ada Bai
  • Notes
  • Tigrinya and Amharic Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index