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Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges (2011)
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Cramer, C., Hammond, L., & Pottier, J. (Eds.). (2011). Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004203129.i-184

Researching violence and conflict can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including security risks to researchers and informants, restricted or lack of access to informants and field sites, and poor reliability of official data. Traditional meth... Read More about Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges.

Cash and Compassion: The Somali Diaspora's Role in Relief, Development and Peacebuilding (2011)
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Hammond, L., Awad, M., Ibrahim Dagane, A., Hansen, P., Horst, C., Menkhaus, K., & Obare, L. Cash and Compassion: The Somali Diaspora's Role in Relief, Development and Peacebuilding

This research report, commissioned by UNDP Somalia, is based on work done in six diaspora hubs (Dubai, London, Minneapolis, Nairobi, Oslo, and Toronto) as well as in Somaliland, Puntland and South/Central Somalia. It examines the involvement of Somal... Read More about Cash and Compassion: The Somali Diaspora's Role in Relief, Development and Peacebuilding.

Strategies of Invisibilization: How Ethiopia's Resettlement Programme Hides the Poorest of the Poor (2008)
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Hammond, L. (2008). Strategies of Invisibilization: How Ethiopia's Resettlement Programme Hides the Poorest of the Poor. Journal of Refugee Studies, 21(4), 517-536. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fen041

This paper examines the process by which the poorest of the poor in Ethiopia's food insecure regions are made invisible through their very participation in a programme whose explicit aim is to help deliver them from vulnerability. Those targeted for... Read More about Strategies of Invisibilization: How Ethiopia's Resettlement Programme Hides the Poorest of the Poor.

Invisible Displacement (2008)
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Polzer, T., & Hammond, L. (2008). Invisible Displacement. Journal of Refugee Studies, 21(4), 417-431. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fen045

By directing our gaze, we also avert our eyes. It is widely recognized—though the implications are rarely consistently analysed—that all perspectives are partial, and that therefore by seeing, describing and categorizing social reality, we also make... Read More about Invisible Displacement.

This Place Will Become Home. Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia (2004)
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Hammond, L. (2004). This Place Will Become Home. Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia. Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727252

How do communities grapple with the challenges of reconstruction after conflicts? In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of refugee repatriation anywhere in the world, Laura C. Hammond follows the story of Ada Bai, a returnee settlement w... Read More about This Place Will Become Home. Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia.