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

在过去和现在的非洲，移徙和回返移徙都是富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适应和创造。该项目通过分析安哥拉难民在赞比亚难民营多年或数十年后返回的案例，着重于这种变化的政治层面。更具体地说，它研究在逃离安哥拉之前担任政治职务的难民作为新传统首领或安盟党/反叛团体的工作人员返回的问题。该项目解决了一个双重问题。首先，有人问，这些难民回返和重新融入当地政治结构会产生什么样的影响，而这些政治结构在他们离开的这些年里将会发生变化。回归的政治领导人和留任的政治领导人之间的互动产生了什么样的政治秩序？其次，有人问，回返者作为难民营难民期间的经历如何影响这一新的政治秩序。特别是，该项目将审查他们对国际难民制度的影响，如果有的话，国际难民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当地领导人在安哥拉新的政治参与？他们在赞比亚的难民营里待了一段时间后又回来了。

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?