Durante la última década, la migración de retorno a Afganistán cambió de la repatriación de refugiados a principalmente personas que retornan de flujos migratorios laborales y mixtos. No se puede seguir asumiendo que los refugiados repatriados son las personas más…
En 2013 un solicitante de asilo con una discapacidad grave fue repatriado a Afganistán desde el Reino Unido. Había alegado que la falta de cuidados sociales adecuados en Afganistán para las personas con discapacidad era lo suficientemente grave como para…
Aunque los factores clave que dificultan el retorno están claros (seguridad, oportunidades económicas y acceso a la vivienda y a los servicios básicos) siguen existiendo importantes lagunas de conocimiento en lo que respecta a muchos aspectos sociales y personales de…
Se estima que hay 1,6 millones de refugiados afganos registrados y de ellos, entre uno y dos millones de indocumentados en Pakistán. A partir de 2001 el Gobierno pakistaní dejó de reconocer como refugiados a los afganos que entraban en…
In 2013, a severely disabled Afghan asylum seeker was returned to Afghanistan from the UK. He had claimed that the lack of adequate social care in Afghanistan for persons with disabilities would be severe enough to constitute inhuman or degrading…
In predicting prospects for Afghanistan during and after 2014, international attention has mainly focused on the impact of the withdrawal of international military forces from Afghanistan by the end of this year. However, the political transition of 2014, starting with…
Over a decade after the fall of the Taliban and following massive international development and military intervention in Afghanistan, all the evidence suggests that we are likely to witness yet another major displacement crisis. The main differences this time around…
Some 630,000 Afghans are internally displaced due to conflict and the country still struggles with the reintegration of over 5.7 million former refugees. Up to 30% of Afghans currently live in urban settings, the majority in informal settlements in or…
Common assumptions would support a belief that urban women and girls should generally be more able to access services and social opportunities compared to their pre-displacement rural place of origin, owing to more progressive urban attitudes and the wider availability…
The results of a recent survey of urban displaced youth (15-24 years of age) in Kabul[1] suggest that displaced youth in Kabul want the opportunity to play a fuller role at home as economic and social actors but that they…