Moving People in Ethiopia: Development, Displacement and the State (Eastern Africa Series, 3) - Hardcover

Piguet, Francois

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847016138 ISBN 13: 9781847016133

Publisher: James Currey, 2009

Synopsis

Development worldwide has increasingly involved displacement. Ethiopia is no exception; population displacement resulting from development as well as conflict, drought and conservation has been on the increase since the 1960s. The recent history of conflict in the Horn of Africa has led to large-scale population movements of refugees, returnees, internally displaced groups and demobilized soldiers. The context of drought and food insecurity in the mid-1980s and again in the early 2000s added a further rationale and impetus for organizing state-led resettlement programmes. This book brings together for the first time studies of the different types of development, conflict and drought induced displacement in Ethiopia, and analyses the conceptual, methodological and experiential similarities, overlaps and differences between these various forms. ALULA PANKHURST is an independent researcher and a member of the Forum for Social Studies; FRANCOIS PIGUET is a lecturer on the masters course of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action at the Geneva University Published in association with the Centre Francais des Etudes Ethiopiennes (CFEE)

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Review

A valuable contribution to diaspora studies as well as a good resource for the fields of economics, political science, and social and cultural studies. AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW The topic of this book is so important for present-day Ethiopia that its publication can be said to be overdue. AETHIOPICA

Edition details

• Publisher: James Currey
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847016138
• ISBN 13: 9781847016133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Pankhurst Alula