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Burundi: seven years of refugee return Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE REFUGEES RETURN UNHCR Before UNHCR started its facilitated return programme in spring 2002 Burundi ranked second (after Afghanistan) in UNHCR's global 'country of origin' statistics, despite its small size. With the return of half a million refugees and the majority of the country's 375,000 internally displaced persons since then, the war-ravaged country of some eight million people has had to reintegrate about 10% of its population. Refugee return has taken place mostly to rural areas in border provinces, in a context of widespread poverty, lack of basic infrastructure and scarcity of land. To gain better information on the situation of returned refugees, UNHCR set up a country-wide returnee monitoring scheme. This, and a number of assessments organised with partners, generated the following conclusions. 2026-09-30T11:43:27Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33352134.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Burundi_seven_years_of_refugee_return/33352134 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0