A different way home: Resettlement patterns in Northern Uganda

Joireman, Sandra F.; Sawyer, Adam; Wilhoit, Juliana

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.12.001

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“… For exceptions, see studies on forced migrants in Bosnia (Dahlman & Ó Tuathail ; Sert, ), the South Caucasus (Toal & Grono, ), Kazakhstan (Kuşçu, ), Colombia (Ibánez & Moya, ), Turkey (Celik, ) and Northern Uganda (Joireman et al. ) …”

Section: Bosniacs Croats Serbsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Voluntary peaceful return following forced migration is a critically important area in refugee studies, yet little effort has been made to collect systematic data on actual returns (for exceptions, see Black and Koser, ; Dahlman and Ó Tuathail, ; O'Loughlin et al., ; Toal and Dahlman, ). NGOs and international organizations generally consider sustainable return a preferred and durable solution of the refugee problem (ECOSOC, ; UNHCR, , ), but despite the normative consensus, there is little empirical knowledge of how or why forced migrants themselves make the decision to resettle in pre‐conflict residences (Belloni, ; Tuathail, ; Joireman et al., ). Once there is a genuine possibility of going home, what influences individual decisions to return to a pre‐conflict residence, often in the face of very difficult conditions?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Peaceful Returns: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing after the Bosnian War

Stefanović¹,

Loizides

2017

International Migration

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This article focuses on post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina to investigate decisions of forced migrants to return home to their pre-conflict residences. We formulate a set of novel hypotheses on the demographic determinants of return as well as on the role of social capital, national ideology, integration, and war victimization. We use a 2013 Bosnian representative sample with 1,007 respondents to test our hypotheses. The findings support the expectation that gender and age have a major impact on return. Net of other factors, women and those experiencing wartime victimization are less likely to return. Older Bosnians with positive memories of pre-conflict interethnic relations are more likely to return than younger persons or those with negative memories. The probability of return for example for a 30-year-old woman with a permanent job is 11.54%, while for a 63-year-old man without a permanent job is 93.92%. Moreover, ethnic Bosniacs are more likely to return than ethnic Croats or ethnic Serbs while less nationalistic IDPs are more likely to return. We discuss the implications of our findings for post-war returns in Bosnia and for the comparative study of durable solutions to displacement particularly effort to support return in postconflict societies.

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Section: Bosniacs Croats Serbsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Peaceful Returns: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing after the Bosnian War

Stefanović¹,

Loizides

2017

International Migration

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“…The rise in settlements coincided with the reduction in woodlands and grasslands. Studies have attributed this to the resettlement effect [16] which is defined as the "loss of physical and non-physical assets, including homes, communities, productive land, income-earning assets and sources, subsistence, resources, cultural sites, social structures, networks and ties, cultural identity, and mutual help mechanisms".…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Effects of Post Eviction Resettlement on Land-Use and Cover Change in Uganda’s Oil Exploration Areas

Ssekandi¹,

Mburu²,

Wasonga³

et al. 2017

JEP

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Evaluation of the changes in land use and land cover change (LULCC) in respect to oil exploration across the Albertine region in Uganda has been focused around the exploration areas and protected areas, with no attention to the potential impacts of evictees' activities on resettled areas. This study used LANDSAT images to analyze the land use and land cover changes (LULCC) among the period before eviction (2002 and 2005) at the climax of eviction and resettlements (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011), and during the post-resettlement period (2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) to quantify the impacts of resettlements on the environment. LANDSAT images were processed using ERDAS IMAGINE software and analyzed using ArcGIS 10.1 to determine LULCC in relation to post-eviction resettlement in the study area. Results from the study indicate. The results of the study indicate that vegetation reduced by 33.08 percent, woodland were converted into settlements by 48 percent while farmlands increased by 18.3 percent. Non vegetated areas increased during resettlements however they reduced five years after eviction which indicated the ability of the ecosystem to stabilize. The study proved that post eviction induced resettlements can yield potential environmental effects to resettled areas. It is important therefore to plan and implement other means of additional source of income and construction materials for evictees to abate vegetation clearance and hence rescue the woodland. The study also recommends maintenance of an optimum population and well-planned pre eviction resettlement schemes.

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“…If displacement has been lengthy, reclaiming of property is not simply a matter of returning to a former home, but rather re‐establishing community membership and asserting claims on land for farming as well as new or previous places of residence. Moreover, remote sensing data from northern Uganda demonstrates that when people do return, they often do not have the same types of settlement patterns which they had prior to displacement (Joireman et al., ). These findings and the frequency of mass displacement make a further investigation into the ways that customary law adapts to displacement a worthy endeavour.…”

Section: Violence and Mass Displacementmentioning

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A Long Time Gone: Post‐conflict Rural Property Restitution under Customary Law

Joireman¹,

Yoder²

2016

Development and Change

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Mass displacement of people due to violence poses a unique set of challenges for property restitution when people return to their homes after a long absence. This is particularly evident in rural areas where the dominant form of land holding is customary tenure. Violence-induced displacement, unlike voluntary migration, challenges both customary and public legaladministrative structures. The lack of written documentation of customary holdings and the importance of the support of community leaders means that incorporating returnees back into a community can be easier for those who choose to return, while reclaiming property without physical return is nearly impossible. This article seeks to make three contributions: 1) to note the diversity of return processes after long displacements in terms of timing and demographics; 2) to demonstrate that the nature of the claims people can make on customary tenure systems is at odds with international legal norms on property restitution after displacement; and 3) to introduce a set of observations and questions on how conflict can change customary law. The article is based on fieldwork conducted in Uganda, Liberia and Timor-Leste, all countries with extended displacement where most of the rural land is held via customary claims.

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A different way home: Resettlement patterns in Northern Uganda

Cited by 32 publications

References 11 publications

Peaceful Returns: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing after the Bosnian War

Peaceful Returns: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing after the Bosnian War

Effects of Post Eviction Resettlement on Land-Use and Cover Change in Uganda’s Oil Exploration Areas

A Long Time Gone: Post‐conflict Rural Property Restitution under Customary Law

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