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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
Print Book, English, 2004
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2004
xi, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780801443077, 9780801489396, 0801443075, 0801489393
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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