Title Anti-Refugee Violence and African Politics

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (298 pages) Contents List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Ethnic and Linguistic Nomenclature; 1 Introduction; Delimiting the Terrain; Study Design and Case Selection; Methods and Field Research; The Use of ethnography; Self-Selection and Representativeness; Language; Conclusion; 2 Explaining Generalized Anti-Refugee Violence; Refugeehood and Disempowerment; The States Changing Attitude; Explaining the Changing Attitude of the State; The Response of Local Communities; Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Anti-Refugee Violence; The Subjugation and Autonomy of Refugees Residence and Indigeneity-Privileging SocietiesRights-Based Institutional Definitions; The Relevant Effects of the Two Societies; The Pacifying Effects of Closed Societies; Conclusion: Subjugation and Integration; 3 An Outburst of Anti-Refugee Violence in Conakry, Guinea; Withdrawing Vociferous Support; Responding to the Call; Configuring a Residence-Privileging Society; Bringing People to Conakry; Land Policy; Chieftaincy Policy; The Postcolonial Period; Enter the Refugees; Getting Rid of the 'Bedbugs'; Conclusion; 4 A Different Approach to Counterinsurgency in the Forest Region of Guinea Indigeneity Over ResidenceSubjugating New Arrivals; The Refugee-Host Relationship; Symbolic Subjugation; Exchange of Gifts; Shared Legal Responsibility; Complications in the System; Quotidian Slander: Fecal Matters; Debasement: Refugee the Dog; Reneging; Independent-Minded Refugees; The Positive Effects of Subjugation; Conclusion; 5 On Two Competing Explanations; The Limited Salience of Co-Ethnicity: Reflections From the Forest Region; The Argument; Three Pathways; Design and Methods; Responses; The Limited Promise of the Co-Ethnicity Argument; The Language Thesis; The Familiarity Thesis The Ethnic Nationalism ThesisThe Spatial Component; An Objection: Measurement Validity; Numbers and Refugee-Host Relations; The Poverty of the Numbers Argument; An Anatomy of Power; Conclusion; 6 Not "Chasing" Banyarwanda in Southwestern Uganda; The State and the Evictions; The Puzzling Nonparticipation of the Local Community; The Land of the Banyankore; Sitting at the Feet of Local Notables; The Lion Learns to Eat Grass; Some Dimensions of Subjugation; The Effect of the Subjugation on Elites; Why the Masses Did Not Participate; The Rural Political Economy; Conclusion 7 The Eviction of 59ers in Kivu, Democratic Republic of CongoAn Expulsion and Sequestration Order; Embracing the States Project; Subverting Indigeneity as an Organizing Principle; The Autonomous Lives of the Refugees; Demonization, Uncertainty, and Anti-Refugee Violence; On Settlement Patterns and Resource Competition; Settlement Patterns; A Problematic Argument; Scarcity and Resource Competition; Conclusion; 8 Conclusion; On General Lessons; Wealth in People; Gender and the Refugee Experience; Some Policy Implications; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index Summary Explains why some refugee-hosting communities in Africa launch large-scale attacks on civilian refugees while others refrain, even when encouraged to do so by state officials Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Refugees -- Violence against Refugees -- Public opinion Refugees -- Government policy. Refugees -- Guinea Refugees -- Uganda Refugees -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Refugees -- Abuse of Politics and government Refugees Refugees -- Government policy Refugees -- Public opinion SUBJECT Guinea -- Politics and government -- 1984- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057775 Uganda -- Politics and government -- 20th century Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 20th century Subject Congo (Democratic Republic) Guinea Uganda Form Electronic book ISBN 9781107275409 1107275407 9781107036697 1107036690 9781139568135 1139568132 1139891715 9781139891714 1107272742 9781107272743 1107272076 9781107272071 1107274168 9781107274167 1107278651 9781107278653 1107277426 9781107277427

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