Georg Frerks is Professor of Disaster Studies, Rural Development Sociology Group, Wageningen University.

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Refugees, Agency and Social Transformation
Philomena Essed, Georg Frerks and Joke Schrijvers

PART I: 'REFUGEEHOOD': CLAIMING SPACES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Chapter 1. Refugeehood, Loss and Social Change: Eritrean Refugees and Returnees
Gaim Kibreab

Chapter 2. Repatriation: Angolan Refugees or Migrating Villagers?
Oliver Bakewell

Chapter 3. Space and Movement in the Sri Lankan Conflict
Oivind Fuglerud

Chapter 4. Contested Refugee Status: Human Rights, Ethics and Social Responsibilities
Philomena Essed and Rianne Wesenbeek

PART II: REDEFINING IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

Chapter 5. A Life Project out of Turmoil: Displacement and Gender in Colombia
Donny Meertens

Chapter 6. Permanent Refugees: Female Camp Inhabitants in Bihar
Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff

Chapter 7. New Opportunities: Angry Young Men in a Tanzanian Refugee Camp
Simon Turner

Chapter 8. Identities and the Sense of Belonging: Iranian Women Activists in Exile
Halleh Ghorashi

PART III: DISCOURAGING POLICIES; EMPOWERING AGENCY

Chapter 9. A Community Empowered? The Bosnia Project in the U.K.
Lynnette Kelly

Chapter 10. Refugee-generated Return: the Case of Guatemala
Anita Rapone and Charles Simpson

Chapter 11. Between Victim and Agent: Women's Ambivalent Empowerment in Displacement
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake

PART IV: CHALLENGING DICHOTOMIES: RELIEF VERSUS DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 12. Refugees between Relief and Development
Georg Frerks

Chapter 13. Rethinking the Relation between Relief and Development: 'Villagisation' in Rwanda
Dorothea Hilhorst and Mathijs van Leeuwen

Chapter 14. Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid: Supporting Internal Refugees in Sri Lanka
Joke Schrijvers

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index