The Problems of Refugees in Africa

Boundaries and Borders

Ebenezer Q . Blavo

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780429801891
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

First published in 1999, this volume is an attempt to make the facts of the tremendous physical, social and psychological problems for the uprooted due to the numerous conflicts known to all and to stress the need for a concerted effort by all to achieve lasting peace on the continent. Ebenezer Q. Blavo had substantial opportunity to observe first hand and be in close contact with refugees of almost all African nationalities. He explores concepts and experiences of being refugees as well as current and potential refugee policies for African countries.

This book forms part of a series on voices in development management, in which grass roots organisations and development practitioners can voice their views and present their perspectives along with the conventional development experts. Many of the volumes in the series will contain explicit debates between the various voices in development and permit the suite of neglected development issues such as gender and transport or the microcredit needs of low income communities to receive appropriate public and professional attention.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Dedication Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Acronyms
• Introduction
• 1 Causes of Refugee Problems in Africa
• 2 The Concept of Refugee
• 3 Life in Refuge
• 4 Solving the Problems of Refugees in Africa
• 5 Refugee Policies of African Countries
• Bibliography
• Appendices
• 1 Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• 2 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951
• 3 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1967
• 4 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, 1969
• 5 Refugees (Control) Act, 1965 of the United Republic of Tanzania
• 6 The Refugees (Recognition and Control) Act, 1967 of Botswana
• 7 The Refugees (Control) Act, 1970 of the Republic of Zambia
• 8 List of States Party to the UN Convention 1951 and/or the Protocol 1967 Relating to the Status of Refugees as at July 1987
• 9 List of States Party to the OAU Convention 1969 Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa (January 1987)
• 10 African Independent States
• 11 Statistical Report on the Movement of Refugees in Africa as at 31 December 1988
• 12 Africa - Four Million Refugees
• 13 Convention Travel Document for Refugees (Specimen)
• 14 Distribution of Refugees in Countries of Asylum
• 15 Ratio of Refugees to Local Population in 12 African Countries