Returnees, Resettlement and Power Relations: The Making of a Political Constituency in Humera, EthiopiaIn the mid-1970s an ethno-nationalist movement, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), emerged in North Ethiopia. In 1984-85 the guerrillas managed to lead a large part of Tigray's people, threatened by famine and civil war, to the Sudan. The fugitives stayed there for six to seven years in camps led by TPLF people. They received training in ideology and self-sufficiency. |
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1985 resettlement activities Addis Ababa Addis Ababa University Administrative Council Africa Agaw agencies agricultural aimed Aksumite Amhara Amhara region ARRA assistance basis Birr causes chapter characterised claimed communities country of asylum decision Dergue economic effect elite emergence Emperor EPRDF EPRP Eritrea Ethiopia Ethiopian Birr Ethiopian government exile existence exodus factors famine farms favour flight forces Front Gaim groups Haile Selassie hegemony home villages Horn of Africa host Humera Humera area individuals initial insurgency intervention Interview involved issue labour localities Mai-Kadra major Mekuria migration officials organised settlements Pankhurst participation planned political power relations problems production Rawyan realising refugee population refugees regard rehabilitation reintegration relief repatriation resettled returnees resettlement programme resettlement schemes responsible returnee households role rural self-sufficiency settlers situation social society socio-cultural socio-economic state-society strategy Sudan Sudanese Tigray region Tigrayan Tigrayan refugees TPLF undertakings UNHCR