When Refugees Go Home

Examines refugees' own strategies for return that do not always relate to formal repatriation schemes.It is well known that there are millions of refugees in Africa. It is less well known that there are milions of refugees who have returned home. This book puts these 'returnees' on the map, documenting some of what happens to people when they go back to their countries of origin and start to pick up the pieces of their lives.Published in association with UNRISD; North America: Africa World Press