Refugees and their return home: Unsettling matters

Roger Zetter

‘Return in safety and dignity’ is promoted as the optimum durable solution to refugee displacement. This paper explores the concepts of home and territory as dominant variables in refugee return, with their implicit suggestion of people ‘belonging’ to a defined territory and ‘remixed’ in a restoration of the status quo ante.

DOI

10.1093/jrs/feab005

Type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication Date

25/06/2020

Volume

34(1)

Pages

7 - 22

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