The Journey Home: Violence, Anchoring, and Refugee Decisions to Return

Autor:	Michael J. Frith, Faten Ghosn, Joanna Jandali, Tiffany S. Chu, Alex Braithwaite, Miranda Simon
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Syrian refugees Sociology and Political Science Refugee Lived experience media_common.quotation_subject Criminology Country of origin Test (assessment) Spanish Civil War Feeling Political science Political Science and International Relations Repatriation media_common
Zdroj:	American Political Science Review. 115:982-998
ISSN:	1537-5943 0003-0554
DOI:	10.1017/s0003055421000344
Popis:	While the UNHCR promotes voluntary repatriation as the preferred solution to refugee situations, there is little understanding of variation in refugees’ preferences regarding return. We develop a theoretical framework suggesting two mechanisms influencing refugees’ preferences. First, refugees’ lived experiences in their country of origin prior to displacement and in their new host country create a trade-off in feelings of being anchored to their origin or host country. Second, firsthand exposure to traumas of war provides some refugees with a sense of competency and self-efficacy, leading them to prefer to return home. We test these relationships with data from a survey among Syrian refugees hosted in Lebanon. We find refugees exposed to violence during the war have a sense of attachment to Syria and are most likely to prefer return. Refugees who have developed a detachment from Syria or an attachment to Lebanon are less likely to prefer return.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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