Obini, Gerald (2019) Forced Migration and Human Security in Uganda: A Study of Refugee Influx and Implications on Food Security in Arua District, West Nile Region. Masters thesis, Hekima University College.
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Abstract
Different literature sources have illustrated civil and political wars as the main driver of forced migration and refugees. As if the consequences of these wars only propel innocent and noncombatant civilians to suffer human indignity, the innocent refugees find themselves ‘unintendedly’ causing harm to another innocent group of noncombatants of host communities. This has been demonstrated by several sources of literatures that saw refugees’ influx impacting negatively on host communities’ food security. This research carried out in Arua district, West Nile Region, Uganda, investigated the effectiveness of human security approach to manage the root causes of forced migration and refugees which in turn impact on host communities’ food insecurity. By use of cross-sectional research design and non-probability sampling technique, a total population of 150 participants out of which 15 scheduled for interviews and 135 for questionnaire forms were reached to achieve three broad themes derived from the four objectives: First, general understanding of food security and how it was before and after the influx of South Sudanese refugees in West Nile Region (WNR); Secondly, South Sudanese refugees as threats to food security in the host communities of WNR; Thirdly, government and stakeholders responses towards threats to food security posed by South Sudanese refugees’ influx in WNR. The study used human security theory to extrapolate the links between wars and conflicts, refugees’ influx, human security, and food security. Just as wars and conflicts are inevitable part of human society, this study embraces the use of human security approach to protect and safeguard people from traumas that besiege human development such as hunger, diseases, poverty, political repression, environmental pollution and depletion, personal security such as criminal attacks, and community insecurity such as survival of traditional cultures since deprivation of these elements to humans have an impact on peace and stability within and between states.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email ict.admin@jhia.ac.ke |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2019 13:24 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Nov 2019 13:24 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9601 |
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