Program
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
Document Type
Research Article
Publication Title
Migration and Refugee Movements in the Middle East and North Africa
Publication Date
10-2007
Abstract
Since the early 1960s, exiles have been fleeing from Eritrea to neighbouring Sudan, the Arab world, and more recently to the West. The independence war that saw Eritreans rise against the Ethiopian state after the annexation of the former Italian colony in 1962, raged until 1991 and caused massive population displacement. Ongoing violence and poverty created over one million refugees in the 1980s and continuous flows of emigrants until the beginning of the 1990s. Eritrean independence, established in 1993, was expected to put refugees on their way back home. With the outbreak of a new war in 1998 and the authoritarian rule of Issayas Afewerki, however, new exiles have been created and the old exiles have been prevented from returning.
First Page
1
Last Page
21
Recommended Citation
APA Citation
Thiollet, H.
(2007). Refugees and Migrants from Eritrea to the Arab World: The Cases of Sudan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia 1991-2007. Migration and Refugee Movements in the Middle East and North Africa, 1–21.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/5019
MLA Citation
Thiollet, Hélène
"Refugees and Migrants from Eritrea to the Arab World: The Cases of Sudan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia 1991-2007." Migration and Refugee Movements in the Middle East and North Africa, 2007, pp. 1–21.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/5019