Evolution and Promotion of the Integrated Rural Development Approach to Refugee Policy in Africa
1984; Indiana University Press; Volume: 31; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1527-1978
Autores Tópico(s)Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
ResumoAt 1981 International Conference on Assistance to Refugees in Africa, President Siaka Stevens of Sierra Leone, speaking for whole continent, acknowledged that African hospitality been stretched beyond its limits. The refugee problem is, he continued, one of the crucial tragic issues of our time . . . (and) . . . there's no time for bickering, conflict or disagreement. The challenges of managing and resolving numerous refugee situations around world today confront various international actors: governments, international organizations, voluntary agencies, host populations and of course, refugees themselves. There is also a challenge facing scholars, who have conscientiously endeavored to research and recommend. Basic refugee research in Africa provides independently verified data complementing what is made available by UNHCR. Much of original analysis thus far conducted in Africa has addressed practical questions concerning role of women, allocation of resources within refugee communities, status of spontaneously settled refugees, and administration of emergency and rural settlement policies. The individual is usually not unit of analysis of African refugee research, in contrast to work done on psychological consequences of refugee status among Indian, Indochinese and European refugees.' Policy analyses in African context come in form of organizational and journalistic reports from field, as well as independent scholarly studies. These typically concentrate on aspects of emergency assistance and rural settlement, two basic types of assistance provided in Africa. Detailed histories of both particular refugee populations and rural settlements have been documented. Among former are case histories of Rwandan
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