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This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia

Hammond, Laura C.·2004·Cornell University Press eBooks
DOI 10.7591/9781501727252
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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 when refugees first arrived, Ada Bai was an empty field along Ethiopia's northwest border, but it is now a viable—arguably thriving—community. For the former refugees who fled from northern Ethiopia to eastern Sudan to escape war and famine in 1984 and returned to their country of birth in 1993, "coming home" really meant creating a new home out of an empty space. Settling in a new area, establishing social and kin ties, and inventing social practices, returnees gradually invested their environment with meaning and began to consider their settlement home. Hammond outlines the roles that gender and generational differences played in this process and how the residents came to define the symbolic and geographical boundaries of Ada Bai. Drawing on her fieldwork from 1993 to 1995 and regular shorter periods since, Hammond describes the process by which a place is made meaningful through everyday practice and social interaction. This Place Will Become Home provides insight into how people cope with extreme economic hardship, food insecurity, and limited access to international humanitarian or development assistance in their struggle to attain economic self-sufficiency.

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Authors
Hammond, L. C.
Corresponding author
Hammond, Laura C.
ORCID
Hammond, Laura C.
Venue
Cornell University Press eBooks
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Published
2004-01-01
DOI
10.7591/9781501727252
OpenAlex
W1509233112
Cited by
167
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Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 6
FWCI
3.28
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • Cornell University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
  • SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › African history and culture analysis
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Keywords
refugee return, post-conflict reconstruction, northern Ethiopia, Sudan, social ties, kinship, gender roles, generational differences, place-making, food insecurity, economic self-reliance, humanitarian aid

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