Pastoral towns and transnational refugees: population movements between eastern Ethiopia and northwestern Somalia

Abstract

Beginning with the inadequacy of the “classical” definition of refugee contained in the Geneva Convention of with respect to the African situation after decolonization in the late 1960s, as well as the practical impracticality of the classical method of refugee status determination, this article presents and analyzes the modalities of refugee status recognition in the context of the exodus of Somali refugees to Ethiopia and then their repatriation