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Forging Home: Local and Global Intersections in the Postconflict Reintegration of Liberian Returnee Refugees

Authors: YACOB-HALISO Olajumoke

Publication Type: Chapters in Books

Journal: Global Africans: Race, Ethnicity And Shifting Identities

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The questions germane to this paper are: how do Liberian refugees returning from exile in various West African countries encounter the country they return to? In what ways do they as members of various communities and localities invent, shape and forge a ‘home’ for themselves to enable sustainable reintegration? And, what complementary roles do local and international agencies, bearing either particularistic or global mandates, play in these processes? And with what outcomes? This original paper based on qualitative fieldwork argues that refugees and returnees are not merely victims of circumstances, nor mere wards of the national and international system that has responsibility for their postconflict reintegration. Rather, they are veritable agents in constructing – forging – the ‘home’ they return to. Furthermore, the paper contends that the returnees’ perception of the country of origin as ‘home’, as well as their steady progress towards the touted ideal, is significantly shaped by the intersecting activities of various local, national and international agencies and norms.

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YACOB-HALISO,O. . (2017). Forging Home: Local and Global Intersections in the Postconflict Reintegration of Liberian Returnee Refugees, 1 (), 202-202.

YACOB-HALISO,O. . "Forging Home: Local and Global Intersections in the Postconflict Reintegration of Liberian Returnee Refugees" 1, no (), (2017): 202-202.

YACOB-HALISO,O. and . (2017). Forging Home: Local and Global Intersections in the Postconflict Reintegration of Liberian Returnee Refugees, 1 (), pp202-202.

YACOB-HALISOO, . Forging Home: Local and Global Intersections in the Postconflict Reintegration of Liberian Returnee Refugees. 2017, 1 ():202-202.

YACOB-HALISO,Olajumoke , . "Forging Home: Local and Global Intersections in the Postconflict Reintegration of Liberian Returnee Refugees", 1 . (2017) : 202-202.

Y.Olajumoke , "Forging Home: Local and Global Intersections in the Postconflict Reintegration of Liberian Returnee Refugees" vol.1, no., pp. 202-202, 2017.

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