Refugees and the Transformation of Societies

Philomena Essed is Senior Researcher, University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine.

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Refugees, Agency and Social TransformationPhilomena Essed, Georg Frerks and Joke SchrijversPART I: 'REFUGEEHOOD': CLAIMING SPACES AND RESPONSIBILITIESChapter 1. Refugeehood, Loss and Social Change: Eritrean Refugees and ReturneesGaim KibreabChapter 2. Repatriation: Angolan Refugees or Migrating Villagers?Oliver BakewellChapter 3. Space and Movement in the Sri Lankan ConflictOivind FuglerudChapter 4. Contested Refugee Status: Human Rights, Ethics and Social ResponsibilitiesPhilomena Essed and Rianne WesenbeekPART II: REDEFINING IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPSChapter 5. A Life Project out of Turmoil: Displacement and Gender in ColombiaDonny MeertensChapter 6. Permanent Refugees: Female Camp Inhabitants in BiharKathinka Sinha-KerkhoffChapter 7. New Opportunities: Angry Young Men in a Tanzanian Refugee CampSimon TurnerChapter 8. Identities and the Sense of Belonging: Iranian Women Activists in ExileHalleh GhorashiPART III: DISCOURAGING POLICIES; EMPOWERING AGENCYChapter 9. A Community Empowered? The Bosnia Project in the U.K.Lynnette KellyChapter 10. Refugee-generated Return: the Case of GuatemalaAnita Rapone and Charles SimpsonChapter 11. Between Victim and Agent: Women’s Ambivalent Empowerment in DisplacementDarini Rajasingham-SenanayakePART IV: CHALLENGING DICHOTOMIES: RELIEF VERSUS DEVELOPMENTChapter 12. Refugees between Relief and DevelopmentGeorg FrerksChapter 13. Rethinking the Relation between Relief and Development: ‘Villagisation’ in RwandaDorothea Hilhorst and Mathijs van LeeuwenChapter 14. Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid: Supporting Internal Refugees in Sri LankaJoke SchrijversBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex