Forced Migration in Eastern Africa
Democratization, Structural Adjustment, And Refugees
Veney, Cassandra Rachel
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
This study enriches understanding of East Africa's refugee situation by examining the conditions that gave rise to it and how the refugees themselves sought to reconstruct their lives. Focusing on the 1990s, Veney compares Kenya and Tanzania, two nations that did not generate many refugees, but become important hosts for the general region. Veney argues that the restrictive refugee policies that were adopted in Tanzania and Kenya were a direct product of liberalization and democratization, the result of two nations forced to clarify their refugee policies at a time of immense internal political and socioeconomic transformation.
BOOK REVIEWS
"In this admirably written book, Cassandra Veney demonstrates that migration should not be analyzed in isolation but as part of a wider discourse on the related phenomena of internal conflict, war, failed states, externally imposed development agendas, and shifting gender and power relations within refugee and host communities. Veney skillfully weaves her way through a narrative framed within the political and cultural struggles underpinning the refugee condition in Eastern Africa, while unraveling the connections between local, national and international policy responses to this continuing crisis. This well researched and deeply contextualized book is a major contribution to understanding the politics and practice of refugee policy in two leading refugee host countries--Kenya and Tanzania--in one of the most disturbed regions of Africa. It deserves to be read by all refugee and migration scholars, practitioners and policymakers with a serious interest in the African refugee problem."
--Tiyanjana Maluwa, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403976104
Dewey Decimal: 362.87/561096762
Library of Congress: 2006046362
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 287
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