| Contents Foreward
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I
1 Patterns of flight
Introduction
The first influx
The Kakwa
The Nubi
The military
Sudanese returnees
The liberation
The situation is 'fluid'
Why did you wait so long?
Insecurity
2 Managing emergency relief
'Aid arrives'
Humanitarians and 'institutional destruction'
Some background
The 1980 Refugee Fund Bill
The 1980 Conference
Yei River District
The programme in the South
Management of aid in Yei River District
The division of duties
Refugee participation
Becoming 'refugees'
The 'planning' of settlements
The lay-out of the settlements
Administration of the settlements
Keeping refugees in line
The best laid plans of mice and men
Addendum
3 Deployed like chessmen
Introduction
The deployment
Absentees - unreliability or
mobility?
The deployment of
households
The deployment of ethnic groups
Where are the bells?
Some other characteristics
of the refugee population
Fertility
A normal human community?
PART II
4 The search for security
Introduction
Refugees and the interests of the state
Implementing protection
Seizing the opportunity
Early problems
Conditions in prison
Incursions
Anticipating needs
The ring of insecurity
Repatriation
Repatriation: in whose interest?
Whose interest?
Repatriation and the interests of the refugees
5 Food is the best medicine
Introduction
'Everybody has to die once'
Evaluating an aid programme
The health programme in Uganda
The health programme in Yei River District
The response to the influx
While Rome burned
Wudabi
Death and its major causes
Nutrition in settlements
Environmental health
Food is the best medicine
6 Putting the last first
Introduction
Defining and identifying the vulnerable
No one to cultivate
The physically handicapped
Orphans
The elderly
Assisting the vulnerable
Agricultural production and the more vulnerable
The vulnerable one year later
Women: another vulnerable group?
Responsibility without authority
Women and malnourished children
Family planning services and the problems of women
Gender blindness
7 The 'over-socialized concept of man'
Explaining the inexplicable
Does the mind matter?
Indirect evidence for psychological stress
Indirect evidence of clinical levels of
depression and anxiety
Bereavement
Mourning
Maintaining customs
A hive of mourners
Grinding stones around their necks
Crisis and loss
Settlements versus independence
Making the victims the villains
Not a statue or a picture
Poisoner
Some social effects of settlement
composition
Test of Wills - Koya Goes Wild
Attempts to cope with the problem
Poisoning and profiteering
The 'cure'
The numbers game
Meeting the psychosocial needs of African refugees
The effects of sub-nutritional diet on mental health
8 A case of understanding
Refugees: problem or opportunity
'Exploitative' hosts?
Markets
'Free' settlement market
The Yei market
Income generation in settlements
Taxation
How were refugees surviving?
Dodging the issues
More may be needed than conventional prescriptions
Is 'no strings' better?
Energies
Monsters of concern
Becoming a facilitator
Appendix I: Alternative viewpoints:
resolutions and recommendations
Appendix II: Notes on
methods and statistical data
Introduction
The survey
Introducing the survey
Administering the interviews
The response to the survey in settlements
'Good' and 'bad' settlements
The study of the self-settled, unassisted refugees
Population of the district
The reactions of the team
Summary
Questionnaire
Appendix III: Additional statistical
data
Table III:1 Distribution of relatives by camp (assisted)
Table III:2 Numbers of self-settled households interviewed in each
area by year first settled 'here' and
mother tongue
Table III:3 Average number buried 'here' (in settlement) per
household since first member arrived
Table III :4 Percentage of households with no land by settlement
Appendix IV: Conditions in prison
Appendix V: Report to the inter-agency meeting at Kala
Settlement
Distribution
Administration
Health
Community development
Education
The protection of refugees and law and order in settlements
Agriculture
Self-settled
Markets
Repatriation
Conclusions
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