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| Title: | States, International Organisations and the Refugee: Reflections on the Complexity of Managing the Refugee Crisis in the Horn of Africa |
| Author: | Bariagaber, Assefaw |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 597-619 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Northeast Africa |
| Subjects: | refugees return migration Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) Politics and Government international relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Inter-African Relations |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/161428 |
| Abstract: | This article explores the complexity of managing refugee issues, particularly refugee repatriations, taking the Horn of Africa as a case study. The author argues that refugee repatriation is a complex process because its success depends on at least four actors - the refugee origin State, the asylum country, the individual refugee, and international organizations like the UNHCR -, each with different, often conflicting interests. As the number of actors involved in refugee decisionmaking increases, so does the likelihood of unsuccessful outcomes. This is particularly true if resource-poor actors are included in the decisionmaking process. The nations of the Horn of Africa are among the poorest of the world and, furthermore, one of the characteristic features of these nations is their capacity and readiness to exploit already existing conflicts in neighbouring States. As a result, repatriations of refugees, which are necessarily consensus-based, have been difficult to accomplish. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |
