Il y a trente ans ICARA 1 (Conférence internationale sur l'assistance aux Réfugiés en Afrique tenue en 1981) et ICARA 2 (1984) soulignaient la ‘charge’ économique que les réfugiés représentent pour leurs hôtes : en imposant des coûts supplémentaires sur des…
Il existe des programmes d’orientation culturelle (OC) dans plus de 40 pays pour faciliter la réinstallation des réfugiés aux États-Unis (USA). Ces programmes se concentrent sur l’emploi, le logement, l’éducation, la santé, la gestion de l’argent, les voyages, l’hygiène et…
Les ONG qui, dans le monde du Sud, fournissent un soutien aux réfugiés et aux demandeurs d’asile dans le cadre des processus de détermination du statut de réfugié (DSR) ou en matière de demande d’asile ont habituellement dans leurs bureaux…
Dans la mesure où le déplacement interne se produit à l’intérieur des frontières d’un État, sa prévention et la protection des personnes déplacées à l’intérieur de leur propre pays (PDI) sont avant tout du ressort de l’État concerné. Cependant, d’autres…
Internal displacement for Georgia is not a new problem. While people displaced by the August 2008 war over South Ossetia are still displaced five years later, IDPs from Abkhazia have been displaced for almost 20 years and IDPs from Tskhinvali…
Age, gender and diversity Twenty-five years ago, refugee populations were often regarded as if they were an undifferentiated mass of people characterised by the single fact that they had been forced to leave their own country and seek sanctuary in…
Nearly 90% of the world’s youth live in poorer countries. The well-recognised connection between poverty, violent conflict and forced migration means that adolescents and youth often constitute the majority of both displaced and host populations. In violent conflict, it is…
In Malawi, 45km north of the capital city of Lilongwe, lies the Dzaleka refugee camp, home to approximately 15,000 refugees and asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia and Ethiopia. As a signatory to the…
In certain situations second-generation forced migrants may be expected and even encouraged to inherit ‘the rage of their ancestors’.[1] My research into notions of identity and belonging in second-generation Lebanese who were brought up abroad after their parents were forced…
Having spent 15 years in Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya, Peter – by then in his late 20s – decided to return to Nyal, the village in southern Sudan[1] where he was born. While in Kakuma, Peter had met…