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Refugees returning home: report of the symposium for the Horn of Africa on the social and economic aspects of mass voluntary return movements of refugees, 15-17 September 1992, Addis Ababa Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE CONFERENCE PAPERS DEPENDENCY VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION STRESS RESETTLEMENT REFUGEE AID AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY RESEARCH REPORTS This report describes the discussion during a symposium held in Ethiopia in 1992, where results were presented of a study of Ugandan refugees who returned from southern Sudan in the late 1980s. The report consists of six main sections which correspond to topics that served as the major foci of the discussion during the symposium: the tyranny of labels, the myth of dependency, the 'problem' of movement, the reconstruction of communities, voluntary repatriation (who decides?), from relief to development, and implications for policy and research. 2026-09-30T11:25:09Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33380713.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Refugees_returning_home_report_of_the_symposium_for_the_Horn_of_Africa_on_the_social_and_economic_aspects_of_mass_voluntary_return_movements_of_refugees_15-17_September_1992_Addis_Ababa/33380713 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0