Challenging the Classical Parameters of “Doing Host–Refugee Politics”: The Case of Casamance Refugees in The Gambia

Ray, Charlotte

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95013-3_3

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“…In 2013, adding residual IDPs, local NGOs assumed the total number to be close to 65,000. The number of new displacements had then declined sharply (Evans, 2021;IDMC, 2021;Ray, 2017) -until March when new skirmishes forced over 6000 refugees to flee to Gambia. Repercussions include around 850 victims of landmines -with the latest fatalities being counted in October 2021 (Agence France-Presse, 2021).…”

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For Us, Women are Sacred: Gender and conflict in the Casamance

Rudolf¹

2021

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For Us, Women are Sacred: Gender and conflict in the Casamance

Rudolf¹

2021

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“…Academics necessarily adopt the same language in most cases; they are to some extent stuck with the categories described (Ray 2017) even as they try analytically to move beyond them. Critical scholarship on the displaced however considers complexities and nuances in the understandings, representations, identities, lived experiences and practices of those concerned, often explored through ethnographic or other similarly grounded approaches.…”

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Displacement in Casamance, Senegal: lessons (hopefully) learned, 2000–2019

Evans

2021

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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The paper reflects on fieldwork conducted since 2000 with displaced communities in Lower and Middle Casamance, Senegal, amid arguably West Africa's longest-running civil conflict. While this is a small conflict in a geographically confined space, Casamance presents a microcosm of dynamics common to other displacement situations in Africa. In this context the paper explores how the understandings, lived experiences and practices of the displaced transcend normative categories used by aid actors to define and manage such situations. Five thematic areas are examined: enumeration of the displaced; complex mobilities, both rural-urban and transnational; historiographic understandings of displacement; political manipulation of displacement situations; and the dynamics of return and reconstruction. The paper concludes by summarising failures of understanding in these areas among much of the aid community, and their consequences. It argues that well-grounded and socially nuanced understandings of displacement may inform more effective aid interventions and enhance the peace process.

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Challenging the Classical Parameters of “Doing Host–Refugee Politics”: The Case of Casamance Refugees in The Gambia

Cited by 2 publications

References 32 publications

For Us, Women are Sacred: Gender and conflict in the Casamance

For Us, Women are Sacred: Gender and conflict in the Casamance

Displacement in Casamance, Senegal: lessons (hopefully) learned, 2000–2019

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