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Title: | Refugees and British Administrative Policy in Northern Kenya, 1936-1938 |
Author: | Wilkin, David |
Year: | 1980 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 79 |
Issue: | 317 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 510-530 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Kenya |
Subjects: | refugees Italo-Ethiopian War Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) colonialism History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/721892 |
Abstract: | From 1936 to 1938 three types of refugees entered or attempted to enter Northern Kenya from Ethiopia; Kenyan administrators under guidance from the Colonial Office discriminately responded to each by following a pragmatic policy based on local conditions, the stage of fighting in Ethiopia, public opinion in the UK and Kenya, legal implications, and the international situation. Thus, when Debbra and Boran pastoralists living near the border tried to enter when their areas were affected by the war, the general response was to prevent them by classifying them as local 'tribesmen' and refusing to consider them as refugees. To Eritreans who deserted from the Italian army, the response was to classify them as 'deserters' and to intern them indefinitely in a military camp under strict army regulations. To the most serious challenge, by large groups of Amharic-led remnants of the Ethiopian army, the response was to discourage initially the entry of as many as possible and to place the rest in a large, well supplied, but closely supervised camp under special civilian officers. Notes. |