CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Girma, Tigist |
|---|---|
| Title | Engendering Voluntary Repatriation: The Planned Repatriation of Maban Refugees from Sherkole Refugee Camp, Ethiopia, to South Sudan |
| Summary | This thesis contributes to the literature on gender, refugees, returnees and repatriation studies. The thesis presents the gendered analysis of the planned repatriation of Maban refugees from Sherkole Refugee Camp, Ethiopia. It critically looks in to the concept of voluntariness, as given in the United Nations High Commission for Refugee Handbook for Voluntary Repatriation, from three different angles: first political and organizational interests that might affect the decision of refugees; secondly the perception of refugee men and women towards the process of repatriation, current situation in their places of origin and the degree of their involvement in the process; third the practical arrangements of the repatriation process. The findings of the thesis suggest that the degree of involvement of refugee men and women in the process and the benefits they might get from the repatriation differ across their gender and their social status. The analysis also shows how difficult it is to establish voluntariness of repatriation independently from the socio-political, socio-cultural and socio-economic context under which any repatriation is planned to be conducted. This dependency on contexts in the case of the planned repatriation of Maban refugees from Sherkole Refugee Camp results in uneven representation of men and women in terms of access to information, decision making and the benefit they get from repatriation. The community leaders take the largest part in access to information and decision-making followed by refugee men, refugee women in male headed households and refugee women headed households and their families. |
| Supervisor | Professor Susan Zimmermann |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/girma_tigist.pdf |
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