Rural refugees in Africa: Past experience, future pointers
作者:
Robert Chambers,
期刊:
Disasters
(WILEY Available online 1982)
卷期:
Volume 6,
issue 1
页码: 21-30
ISSN:0361-3666
年代: 1982
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-7717.1982.tb00740.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: Africa;refugees;rural settlement;development
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Rapid change In rural Africa raises new policy problems In dealing with mass influxes of rural refugees. Self‐settlement in agriculture has become less feasible and is less acceptable now that Its disadvantages are better understood. Organized smallholder settlement can be a better solution where it is economically viable, refugees have freedom of movement, and staff are suitable. But growing land shortage means that Increasing proportions of refugees are being placed in camps. To offset this trend, more attention is suggested to programmes for groups of refugees, categorized by time of arrival, by ability to self‐settle or to farm, and by skills and experience. Practically‐oriented social science research can contribute to these and other approaches which will require imagination and ingenuity. Solutions to future rural refugee problems should be linked with programmes of social and economic development which will make easier the achievement of humanitarian objec
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