Refugees and Their Return Home: Unsettling Matters

2020/06/25 by Roger Zetter · 1 voice
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Migration, Health and Trauma #Migration, Refugees, and Integration

paper · doi:10.1093/jrs/feab005

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Abstract

Abstract ‘Return in safety and dignity’ is promoted as the optimum durable solution to refugee displacement. This paper explores the concepts of home and territory as dominant variables in refugee return, with their implicit suggestion of people ‘belonging’ to a defined territory and ‘remixed’ in a restoration of the status quo ante.

Discussions

• That is a good question, and the answer will surely vary from person to person. Those returning home will certainly face a certain amount of hostility from the people who stayed behind and endured it [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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