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Exiles in their own home: conflicts and internal population displacement in Nigeria Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS MILITARY GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ETHNIC AND NATIONAL GROUPS ARMED CONFLICT This paper analyses the growing problem of internal population displacement in Nigeria. It argues that a central causal variable in population displacement in Nigeria is state violence. Aggression of the state towards certain groups appears as inter-group conflicts. The paper locates the socio-economic and political basis of state violence in Nigeria in military rule, crude oil production and communalism, three factors which also give rise to the three most important displacement-generating conflicts in Nigeria. An analysis of these conflicts shows the deepening link between state violence, insecurity and population displacement. The paper also addresses issues of humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced people. It concludes that the management of internal population displacement in Nigeria calls for the elimination of state violence and the transformation of the state into an instrument of equitable resource allocation and conflict management among groups. The key to these is the democratization of the state. 2026-09-30T12:04:52Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33362244.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Exiles_in_their_own_home_conflicts_and_internal_population_displacement_in_Nigeria/33362244 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0