Forced Displacement in Africa: Dimensions, Difficulties, and Policy Directions
Author(s)
Crisp, Jeff
Abstract
The first part of this paper examines the changing scope, scale, and dynamics of the problem of human displacement in Africa, drawing on statistical data gathered by UNHCR and other organizations. The article then goes on to analyze a number of policy challenges related to this issue: the principle and practice of asylum; insecurity in refugee-populated areas; protracted refugee situations; the return and reintegration of displaced people; and the protection of people who have been displaced within their own country. The paper focuses on mass displacement and does not examine the movement of individual refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants towards the Mahgreb states and South Africa.
