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Self-settled Refugees in Uganda: An Alternative Approach to Displacement?
Abstract
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 that far from being passive victims, self-settled refugees are taking control of their lives without any additional external assistance and are planning for the day they can return to their homeland. Consequently, the paper argues that there is reason to believe that local integration is likely to succeed where other models have failed.
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“This significantly limits the achievement of self-sufficiency, to the point where SRS has been argued to not only not address, but ultimately work against refugees' protection and wellbeing needs (Krause 2016;Schiltz et al. 2019;Hovil 2007;Oliver and Boyle 2019).”
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Torre, C. (2023) · London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) · doi:10.21953/lse.00004557
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- Authors
- Hovil, L.
- Affiliations
- Makerere University (UG)
- Corresponding author
- Hovil, L.
- ORCID
- Hovil, L.
- Venue
- Journal of Refugee Studies
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2007-12-01
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 599-620
- ISSN
- 0951-6328 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-6925
- OpenAlex
- W2147422860
- Cited by
- 89
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 5.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Refugee Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Law › Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
- Keywords
- local integration, refugee displacement, refugee self-determination, return migration, refugee livelihoods, refugee security, Uganda
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