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A 9 page book review that critiques and summarizes Laura C. Hammond's This Place Will Become Home (2004), which is a thorough, scholarly and intimate anthropological study of the experience of a group of Ethiopian refugees who are repatriated to their home country from camps in the Sudan. The writer judges this to be an exemplary study that not only offers a complete overview of these peoples' situation, but has serious social policy implications for humanitarian efforts. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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aid and assistance. In 1993, you are told that you are "going home." Along with several thousand other people you are loaded onto trucks with a few of your belongings--a
bedstead and some suitcases. Rather than being transported back to area of Ethiopia that you remember as "home," you and your fellow travelers arrive a flat, foreign-looking barren plain and
told that this is "home"--problem solved and have a nice life. Given a plastic sheet for shelter, a jerry-can for a water supply, some land and nine-months food, aid otherwise
disappears and you and your compatriots face carving a life out of this new and formidable landscape. Laura C. Hammonds This Place Will Become Home (2004) is a thorough,
scholarly and intimate anthropological study of the experience of this group of Ethiopian refugees who are repatriated to their home country from camps in the Sudan. Driven from their homes
by war and famine in the mid-1980s, this new land, while technically their new "home," is nothing like the highlands that left roughly a decade ago. Hammonds text concerns
how these people adapt to the task of transforming the bleak countryside of Tigray (a part of Ethiopia) into "home." Through an "ethnographic lens," she recounts how the Tigrayan refugees
set about "transforming an unknown and anonymous space first into a personalized space and finally into a home" (Hammond 3). According to Hammond, these two tasks, while conceptually related, are
also distinct from one another. The first task facing the refugees was one of "emplacement," where in the people transformed a barren landscape into a personalized, social construct fitting to
human habitation. The second part of this process involved community formation, which occurred "through creative action and structural transformation" (Hammond 3). The first few chapters of the book offer
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