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This paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in the hosting population. Using panel data (pre- and post-refugee inflow) from Kagera, a rural region of Tanzania, we find that the refugee shock led to women being less likely to...
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I explore the long-term effects of internal displacement caused by the Kurdish-Turkish conflict on women's attitudes … towards domestic violence. Using the Turkish Demographic and Health Survey, I show that forced migrants are more likely to … view domestic violence as acceptable. As suggestive evidence, I use data from applicants to a women's shelter and show that …
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This paper presents data from a study of Syrian diaspora organizations providing assistance to conflict-affected Syrians in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Using interview data from leaders in three Syrian diaspora non-profit organizations, this paper examines the social mechanisms...
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Bridging the gap between humanitarian assistance and development cooperation has been a contentious issue in academia and development practice for decades. Drawing on an evaluation of Germany's 'Partnership for Prospects' initiative, this paper argues that, whilst the supplement of...
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How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … relative impact of exposure to violence on these indicators? In this paper we explore these questions by focusing on the … stayees are mostly statistically insignificant. Greater exposure to violence has a more positive effect on trust for returnees …
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In May 2008, South Africa became the theatre of widespread violent attacks against undesirable 'outsiders'. Over 60 were killed, hundreds wounded, and tens of thousands displaced. This analysis aims at identifying the characteristics of the victims in an attempt to portray the 'alien' using...
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that the same logic does not apply to lower-scale group violence such as riots, which differ in such a way that … argument by analysing Muslim-Christian violence in the post-Suharto era, combining a new subnational data set of ethno …-income and ethnogeographic crosscuttingness with a new and comprehensive subnational data set of violence in Indonesia. Our …
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analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …
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Following the abolition of slavery, various forms of compulsory labour were adopted by colonial powers to develop their economies. This paper analyses the contemporary consequences of compulsory cotton production-a forced labour system that operated in colonial Mozambique from 1926 to 1961....
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potential future communal violence in socially fragmented contexts where conflicting social groups live alongside each other. …
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