@article{ref1,
title="Narrative structures constructed around "returning  home": the case of refugees (Oruchinga Valley) and  returnee communities (Gulu) in Uganda",
journal="International journal of Asian social science",
year="2014",
author="Natukunda-Togboa, Edith",
volume="4",
number="6",
pages="767-778",
abstract="A comparative qualitative study was conducted on Identity, Culture and Conflict in refugee (Oruchinga Valley Western Uganda) and returnee communities (Gulu, Northern Uganda) in 2009/10. This was an in-depth investigation into the &quot;returning home process&quot; using personal narratives of respondents to scan the socio-economic conditions of refugees and returnees and analyse their struggle with issues of identity reconstruction within the transitory post conflict period. The study was aimed at comparing the cross-border refugee and internally displaced returnees' identity perspectives. It was to confirm whether the socio-economic measures taken to settle returnees are adequate and inducing peace or inadequate and tipping power relations in the community and increasing the risk of re-kindling hostilities. The study therefore traced the social implications of &quot;returning home&quot; and the patterns of adaptation, re-integration and rejection in the host community. Most interesting is the study's linguistic analysis of the refugees and returnees conflict narrative structures using Reissman's analysis of their discourse system.<p /><p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2226-5139",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}