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Refugee economies : forced displacement and development
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ISBN: 0191836982 0192515225 0198795688 9780198795681 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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This work explores the economic lives of refugees. It looks at what shapes the production, consumption, finance, and exchange activities of refugees, to explain variation in economic outcomes for refugees themselves.


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Child to Soldier : Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army
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ISBN: 144266424X 9781442664241 9781442614178 144261417X 9781442646049 1442646047 1442664258 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,


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Losing your land : dispossession in the Great Lakes
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ISBN: 1782043411 132220117X 1847011055 Year: 2014 Publisher: Suffolk : James Currey,

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Dispossession of land on a small scale can have as great an impact on living conditions as large-scale land-grabs. With the increasing commodification of land, new forms of dispossession, in urban as well as rural districts, are also gaining in importance. This book looks at this largely uninvestigated issue through case studies in the Eastern DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda: here the loss of land often represents the loss of people's livelihoods in these areas of extreme land scarcity in highly populated regions. In the post-conflict states of the Great Lakes, governance challenges increase the risk of dispossession of the already poor and vulnerable: formal institutions are weak or biased; customary authorities have lost some of their moral authority. The cases in this book show in particular how local power dynamics, often rooted in history, bear upon the processes of land competition, dispossession and land grabbing. This timely volume will be important not only for those in African Studies, but for those in development studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers worldwide.

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