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This place will become home : refugee repatriation to Ethiopia /

'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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hammond, Laura, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Series:Cornell paperbacks.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Narratives of displacement
  • Life in the Sudan camps
  • A patchwork of emplacements
  • The household food economy as the locus of community construction
  • "We have each lost a child": birth, death and the role of life-cycle rituals in emplacing the individual within the community
  • Ada Bai's place in the wider world
  • Conclusion: forced migration, anthropology and the politics of international assistance
  • Epilogue: the Ethiopian-Eritrean war as felt in Ada Bai.