Today, about half of the refugees in the world are Africans. More than half of Africa's refugees originate from Ethiopia and live in the Sudan and Somalia. as a source of refugees, Ethiopia is surpassed only by Afghanistan. This book is about this mass exodus from Ethiopia.
The author maintains that in the absence of a clear understanding of its root causes it is impossible to find lasting solutions to this problem of mass displacement. Therefore, he employs an historical approach and commences the study with an investigation of the links between the past history of the peoples of the Horn of Africa and the conflict which currently plague the region.
Contents: PART I: The general background -- 1. General Introduction -- 2. The Mass Exodus from Ethiopia: Historical Background -- 3. The Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 – Part II: The flight -- 4. The Conceptual and Methodological Framework Introduction -- 5. Immediate Subjective and Objective Causes of Mass Flight from Ethiopia -- 6. Flight Dynamics and Intervening Obstacles -- PART III: The dimensions of integration -- 7. The Economic Dimension of Integration -- 8. The Social Dimension of Integration -- 9. Cultural and Psychological Aspects of Adjustment and Integration -- PART IV -- 10. Summary and Policy Implications