IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/aaechp/978-3-030-03721-5_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Refugee Undesirability and Economic Potentials: Questioning Encampment Policy in Forced Migration

In: Refugees and Forced Migration in the Horn and Eastern Africa

Author

Listed:
  • Elias O. Opongo

    (Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations)

Abstract

Refugee undesirability has become more common in many countries. They are often seen as a nuisance, dependent as well as a social and security threat. In many developing countries, encampment of refugees has been considered as a more practical policy for management of refugee influx in forced migration situations. However, this policy approach ignores the positive economic potential of refugees, despite situations of complex humanitarian emergencies. Refugees create a ready market for local goods, bring foreign currency into the country through remittances and donor funding that has to be brought in for purchase of humanitarian supplies, as well as create an intercultural mix that is beneficial to the host country.

Suggested Citation

  • Elias O. Opongo, 2019. "Refugee Undesirability and Economic Potentials: Questioning Encampment Policy in Forced Migration," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt & Leah Kimathi & Michael Omondi Owiso (ed.), Refugees and Forced Migration in the Horn and Eastern Africa, pages 115-130, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-030-03721-5_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03721-5_7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-030-03721-5_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.