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The Global and Local Politics of Refugee Management in the Horn: Ethiopian Refugee Policy and Eritrean Refugee Agency

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

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  • Jennifer Riggan

    (Arcadia University)

  • Amanda Poole

    (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Abstract

A focus on the burdened refugee-hosting state has led to gaps in our understanding of the politics of refugee management. Based on a multi-sited ethnographic study, we explore how the management of refugees operates as a form of transnational state-making and the refugee political agency that results. Focusing on education among Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia, we argue that refugees’ decisions about secondary migration are shaped by their sense of political belonging and trust, or lack thereof, in the caretaking capacity of the host state and, in turn, that the way the host state situates refugees depends on whether or not caring for a particular refugee population enables that state to strengthen their international and regional reputation by doing so.

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  • Jennifer Riggan & Amanda Poole, 2019. "The Global and Local Politics of Refugee Management in the Horn: Ethiopian Refugee Policy and Eritrean Refugee Agency," 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 155-174, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-030-03721-5_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03721-5_9
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