This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia 9781501727252

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transcriptions and Use of Tigrinya Terms
Introduction
1. Narratives of Displacement
2. Life in the Sudan Camps
3. A Patchwork of Emplacements
4. The Household Food Economy
5. "We HaveEach Lost a Child": Birth, Death, and Life-Cycle Rituals
6. Ada Bai's Place in the Wider World
Conclusion: Forced Migration, Anthropology, and the Politics of International Assistance
Epilogue: The Ethiopia-Eritrea War in Ada Bai
Notes
Tigrinya and Amharic Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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This Place Will Become Home

This Place Will Become Home Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia

Laura C. Hammond

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

Copyright © 2004 by Laura C. Hammond All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in wriclng from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York I485o. First published 2004 by Cornell University Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2004 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hammond, Laura, I967This place will become home : refugee repatriation to Ethiopia I Laura Hammond. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8or4-4307-5 (cloth : alk. paper)-ISBN o-8oi4-8939-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Refugees-Ethiopia. 2. Refugee camps-Sudan. 3· Repatriation-:-Ethiopia. 4· Return migration-Ethiopia. 5· Land settlement-Government policy-Ethiopia. I. Tide. HV64o.4.E77H36 2004 323.6'4'0963-dc22 Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or pardy composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Cloth prlliting IO 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I Paperback printing IO 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I

Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transcriptions and Use ofTigrinya Terms

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