Refugee Repatriation and Local Politics in Angola: Conflict and Creativity Following the Return of Chiefs and Party Functionaries

安哥拉难民遣返与当地政治：酋长和党员回归后的冲突与创造力

• 批准号: 180020955
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Katharina Inhetveen, since 7/2012
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar für Sozialwissenschaften
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-31 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/180020955?language=en
• 关键词: Refugee; Repatriation; Local; Politics; Angola

Migration and return migration are challenging phenomena of creativity and adaptation, both in past and contemporary Africa. They cause changes in local structures and induce conflicts, which propel further cycles of adaptation and creativity by locals and migrants.The project focuses on the political dimension of such changes by analyzing the case of returning Angolan refugees after years or decades in Zambian refugee camps. More specifically, it studies the return of refugees who held political positions prior to their flight from Angola, either as neo-traditional chiefs or as functionaries of the UNITA party/rebel group. The project addresses a twofold question. Firstly, it is asked what kinds of repercussions are invoked by the return of such refugees and their re-immersion into the local political structures which will have changed during their years of absence. What kind of political order emerges from the interaction between returned political leaders and those who stayed? Secondly, it is asked how this new political order is influenced by the experiences of the returnees during their time as camp refugees. In particular, the project will examine the influence, if any, of their exposure to the international refugee regime, which propagates humanitarian and democratic values (often seen as Western values) in the camps. Has this experience shaped the new political engagement in Angola of local leaders, who have returned after staying in the refugee camps of Zambia?

在过去和当代非洲，移徙和回移都是具有挑战性的创造性和适应现象。它们导致当地结构的变化并引发冲突，从而推动当地人和移民进一步的适应和创造性循环，该项目通过分析在赞比亚难民营中生活数年或数十年后返回的安哥拉难民的案例，重点关注这种变化的政治层面。更具体地说，报告研究了在逃离安哥拉之前担任政治职务的难民的返回情况，这些难民有的是新传统酋长，有的是安盟政党/反叛集团的工作人员。该项目解决了一个双重问题。第一，有人问，这些难民返回并重新融入在他们离开期间将发生变化的当地政治结构会引起什么样的影响。从返回的政治领导人和留下来的政治领导人之间的互动中产生了什么样的政治秩序？第二，有人问，这种新的政治秩序如何受到返回者在难民营中的经历的影响。特别是，该项目将审查他们受国际难民制度影响的情况，该制度在难民营中宣传人道主义和民主价值观（通常被视为西方价值观）。这一经历是否影响了地方领导人在安哥拉新的政治参与，他们在赞比亚的难民营呆过之后又回来了？