Peace, preference, and property : return migration after violent conflict / Sandra F. Joireman.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.

©2022.

xv, 176 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Growing numbers of people are displaced by war and violent conflict. In Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Syria, and elsewhere violence pushes civilian populations from their homes and sometimes from their countries, making them refugees. In previous decades, millions of refugees and displaced people returned to their place of origin after conflict or were resettled in countries in the Global North. Now displacements last longer, the number of people returning home is lower, and opportunities for resettlement are shrinking. More and more people spend decades in refugee camps or displaced within their own countries, raising their children away from their home communities and cultures. In this context, international policies encourage return to place of origin.

Return migration after violent conflict.

Online version: Joireman, Sandra Fullerton Peace, preference, and property Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022

English

January 26, 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.