'Any place could be home' Embedding refugees' voices into displacement resolution and state refugee policy
Suzanne, Y.A.Tete
Geoforum 43(1): 106-115
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-7185 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.07.009Document Number: 535053
This article explores refugees views about the durable solutions or three Rs Voluntary Repatriation, Local or Re-Integration and Resettlement underscoring the need for refugees voices to inform policy actions taken on their behalf. Central to discourses on the right to return and the policy practice of voluntary repatriation is the salience accorded the nation-state of which territorial boundaries are an important defining feature. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with Liberian refugees in the Gomoa-Buduburam camp in Ghana, this article elucidates the effects of essentialist assumptions about territory, nation-state, home and enforced repatriation on the rights of refugees. By studying. Highlights: Liberian refugees views about solutions to their protracted displacement. How socio-spatial relations are reproduced and contested by various actors. Constructions of nation-state, territory and home in context of refugees rights. Refugees as heterogeneous but active agents capable of articulating their needs. Encourages an embedding of refugees voices into displacement interventions.
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