Laura Hammond
Biographic Data
| ID | 643753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Hammond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammond |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMOND L |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0308-0435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rape Victims’ Perceptions of Quality of Encounters With the Swedish Police
This study focused on raped women's perceptions of their encounters with Swedish police, with a specific focus on quality of encounters, trust, questions asked during police interviews, and perceptions of justice. One hundred and six rape victims, 74 of whom had reported to the police, answered a web-based questionnaire. Results show that where officers explained their line of questioning the perceived intrusiveness of the questioning was lower, …
Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians …
The Impacts of Conservatism, Social Dominance, and Rape Myth Acceptance on Blame Attribution in Ambiguous Rape Scenarios
Participants ( N = 496) reviewed an ambiguous rape scenario involving a "perpetrator," either in a high or low authority position, and a "victim," who had or had not consumed alcohol. They indicated whether they viewed what happened as rape, and rated the perceived responsibility of the individuals involved. They also completed Conservatism and Rape Myth Acceptance (RMA) scales. Most believed the scenario to constitute rape. Perpetrator responsib…
Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s borderlands are key sites of population mobility and migration. Not only do these areas host most of the 800,000 refugees who have entered Ethiopia from neighbouring countries, they also are home to populations whose movements are heavily influenced by the livelihoods, trade, environment, and border management regimes working in their areas. These systems create opportunities for, and blockages to, movement within borderlands and acros…
Diaspora returnees to Somaliland: Heroes of development or job-stealing scoundrels?
‘Voluntary’ Repatriation and Reintegration
This chapter focuses on the ‘voluntary’ repatriation and reintegration of refugees and highlights the difficult challenges faced by refugees who return ‘home’. It examines repatriation in its various forms, from the most voluntary to more coerced forms of deportation and return, as well as the post-return experience of (re)integration and homecoming/homemaking. After discussing return in historical context, it underscores the need for clearer ben…
Somali Transnational Activism and Integration in the UK: Mutually Supporting Strategies
This paper considers the simultaneous processes of transnational activism and integration amongst Somalis living in the UK. It argues that, rather than challenging integration, diasporic Somalis' involvement in transnational activism may actually support integration, and vice versa. Transnational engagement fulfils a range of functions that relate not only to the country of origin, but also to community formation in the UK. Such practices may, in…
Somalia rising: Things Are Starting to Change for the World's Longest Failed State
This article examines some of the challenges facing the new Somali National Government in Mogadishu, following the conclusion of the Transitional Federal Charter, and the resulting surprises in the emergence of the post-Transitional leadership. The article also assesses the dynamics which allowed the emergence of relative newcomers into important roles, especially President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. A sense of optimism surrounds the Mogadishu admini…
Governmentality in Motion: 25 Years of Ethiopia's Experience of Famine and Migration Policy
In the 25 years since the 1984–85 Great Sahelian Famine, the Ethiopian state has used the management of mobility as a tool to control the poorest of its citizens. In this paper I examine three cases: the forced resettlement of people during the 1980s, the repatriation of refugees during the mid-1990s and the more recent resettlement of food insecure people in the early 2000s. I argue that in each of these cases, people’s movements have been contr…
Moving People in Ethiopia: Development, Displacement and the State. Edited by Alula Pankhurst and Francois Piguet
With this volume, Alula Pankhurst and François Piguet have set an impressive standard for country studies of migration. The volume comprises 13 case studies, mostly by Ethiopian scholars, covering a wide range of migration types and experiences that have taken place within Ethiopia’s borders over the past half century: displacement caused by development including dam construction, irrigation projects, and urbanization strategies; resettlement of …
Strategies of Invisibilization: How Ethiopia's Resettlement Programme Hides the Poorest of the Poor
This paper examines the process by which the poorest of the poor in Ethiopia's food insecure regions are made invisible through their very participation in a programme whose explicit aim is to help deliver them from vulnerability. Those targeted for support progressively lose their status and agency as ‘people of concern’ to governmental welfare bodies as well as international humanitarian organizations as they are resettled in a scheme that rend…
Conflict and the Refugee Experience: Flight, Exile and Repatriation in the Horn of Africa. By Assefaw Bariagaber
In this comprehensive account of population displacement in the Horn of Africa in the latter part of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, Assefaw Bariagaber confronts what he calls the ‘lack of attention’ of both academics and policy-makers to the role of large-scale migration in that part of the world in determining ‘peace, security and the sovereignty of nations’. Basing his analysis largely on Kunz's (1973, 1981) ‘kinetic’ …
Prioritizing Burglars: Comparing the Effectiveness of Geographical Profiling Methods
The effectiveness, in prioritizing suspects, of six geographical profiling methods are compared by determining the rank to which each of 92 prolific burglars was assigned, from the total of 400 known burglars, who were selected from a large metropolitan database because they resided in the borough in which the crimes occurred. Using mean and median ranked prioritization of actual offenders, as well as the percentages that appeared in the top 5% o…
Transnational Nomads: How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya. By Cindy Horst
Journal Article Transnational Nomads: How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya. By Cindy Horst. Get access Transnational Nomads: How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya. By Cindy HorstOxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. xiii + 236 pp. $75/£45. ISBN 1 84545 129 5. Laura Hammond Laura Hammond School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology
This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia
This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia
How do communities grapple with the challenges of reconstruction after conflicts? In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of refugee repatriation anywhere in the world, Laura C. Hammond follows the story of Ada Bai, a returnee settlement with a population of some 7,500 people. In the days when refugees first arrived, Ada Bai was an empty field along Ethiopia's northwest border, but it is now a viable—arguably thriving—community. For th…
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology: Refugees and Immigrants
Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology: Committee on Refugees and Immigrants
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology: Cori News
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation. By Dena Freeman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 180; 3 maps, 6 figures, 10 b/w photographs. $55.00. In this rich historical/ethnographic account of life in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia-an area on which little anthropological work has been done-Dena Freeman poses the following ethnographic puzzle: In a society that practices …
Society for Urban, National and Transnationa/Global Anthropology: Cori News
Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology: Committee on Refugees and Immigrants
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology: Cori News
Somali Transnational Activism and Integration in the UK: Mutually Supporting Strategies
This paper considers the simultaneous processes of transnational activism and integration amongst Somalis living in the UK. It argues that, rather than challenging integration, diasporic Somalis' involvement in transnational activism may actually support integration, and vice versa. Transnational engagement fulfils a range of functions that relate not only to the country of origin, but also to community formation in the UK. Such practices may, in…
Strategies of Invisibilization: How Ethiopia's Resettlement Programme Hides the Poorest of the Poor
This paper examines the process by which the poorest of the poor in Ethiopia's food insecure regions are made invisible through their very participation in a programme whose explicit aim is to help deliver them from vulnerability. Those targeted for support progressively lose their status and agency as ‘people of concern’ to governmental welfare bodies as well as international humanitarian organizations as they are resettled in a scheme that rend…
Somalia rising: Things Are Starting to Change for the World's Longest Failed State
This article examines some of the challenges facing the new Somali National Government in Mogadishu, following the conclusion of the Transitional Federal Charter, and the resulting surprises in the emergence of the post-Transitional leadership. The article also assesses the dynamics which allowed the emergence of relative newcomers into important roles, especially President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. A sense of optimism surrounds the Mogadishu admini…
The Ethiopian Crisis of 1999-2000: Lessons Learned, Questions Unanswered
During 1999-2000, Ethiopia was brought to the edge of a major disaster, with some 10 million people estimated to be in need of food assistance at the height of the crisis. A repeat of the catastrophic famine of 1984-5 was avoided, but the numbers of people affected, the loss of life and the destruction of livelihoods made this one of the most serious crises in the Horn of Africa in the past 15 years. The humanitarian community has been slow to re…
Governmentality in Motion: 25 Years of Ethiopia's Experience of Famine and Migration Policy
In the 25 years since the 1984–85 Great Sahelian Famine, the Ethiopian state has used the management of mobility as a tool to control the poorest of its citizens. In this paper I examine three cases: the forced resettlement of people during the 1980s, the repatriation of refugees during the mid-1990s and the more recent resettlement of food insecure people in the early 2000s. I argue that in each of these cases, people’s movements have been contr…
The Impacts of Conservatism, Social Dominance, and Rape Myth Acceptance on Blame Attribution in Ambiguous Rape Scenarios
Participants ( N = 496) reviewed an ambiguous rape scenario involving a "perpetrator," either in a high or low authority position, and a "victim," who had or had not consumed alcohol. They indicated whether they viewed what happened as rape, and rated the perceived responsibility of the individuals involved. They also completed Conservatism and Rape Myth Acceptance (RMA) scales. Most believed the scenario to constitute rape. Perpetrator responsib…
This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia
Rape Victims’ Perceptions of Quality of Encounters With the Swedish Police
This study focused on raped women's perceptions of their encounters with Swedish police, with a specific focus on quality of encounters, trust, questions asked during police interviews, and perceptions of justice. One hundred and six rape victims, 74 of whom had reported to the police, answered a web-based questionnaire. Results show that where officers explained their line of questioning the perceived intrusiveness of the questioning was lower, …
Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s borderlands are key sites of population mobility and migration. Not only do these areas host most of the 800,000 refugees who have entered Ethiopia from neighbouring countries, they also are home to populations whose movements are heavily influenced by the livelihoods, trade, environment, and border management regimes working in their areas. These systems create opportunities for, and blockages to, movement within borderlands and acros…
The Administration of The Workmen's Compensation Acts 1
The Ethiopian Crisis of 1999-2000: Lessons Learned, Questions Unanswered
During 1999-2000, Ethiopia was brought to the edge of a major disaster, with some 10 million people estimated to be in need of food assistance at the height of the crisis. A repeat of the catastrophic famine of 1984-5 was avoided, but the numbers of people affected, the loss of life and the destruction of livelihoods made this one of the most serious crises in the Horn of Africa in the past 15 years. The humanitarian community has been slow to re…
Society for Urban, National and Transnationa/Global Anthropology: Cori News
Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology: Committee on Refugees and Immigrants
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology: Cori News
This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia
How do communities grapple with the challenges of reconstruction after conflicts? In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of refugee repatriation anywhere in the world, Laura C. Hammond follows the story of Ada Bai, a returnee settlement with a population of some 7,500 people. In the days when refugees first arrived, Ada Bai was an empty field along Ethiopia's northwest border, but it is now a viable—arguably thriving—community. For th…
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology: Refugees and Immigrants
Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology: Committee on Refugees and Immigrants
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology: Cori News
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation. By Dena Freeman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 180; 3 maps, 6 figures, 10 b/w photographs. $55.00. In this rich historical/ethnographic account of life in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia-an area on which little anthropological work has been done-Dena Freeman poses the following ethnographic puzzle: In a society that practices …
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology
This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia
Prioritizing Burglars: Comparing the Effectiveness of Geographical Profiling Methods
The effectiveness, in prioritizing suspects, of six geographical profiling methods are compared by determining the rank to which each of 92 prolific burglars was assigned, from the total of 400 known burglars, who were selected from a large metropolitan database because they resided in the borough in which the crimes occurred. Using mean and median ranked prioritization of actual offenders, as well as the percentages that appeared in the top 5% o…
Transnational Nomads: How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya. By Cindy Horst
Journal Article Transnational Nomads: How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya. By Cindy Horst. Get access Transnational Nomads: How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya. By Cindy HorstOxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. xiii + 236 pp. $75/£45. ISBN 1 84545 129 5. Laura Hammond Laura Hammond School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Strategies of Invisibilization: How Ethiopia's Resettlement Programme Hides the Poorest of the Poor
This paper examines the process by which the poorest of the poor in Ethiopia's food insecure regions are made invisible through their very participation in a programme whose explicit aim is to help deliver them from vulnerability. Those targeted for support progressively lose their status and agency as ‘people of concern’ to governmental welfare bodies as well as international humanitarian organizations as they are resettled in a scheme that rend…
Conflict and the Refugee Experience: Flight, Exile and Repatriation in the Horn of Africa. By Assefaw Bariagaber
In this comprehensive account of population displacement in the Horn of Africa in the latter part of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, Assefaw Bariagaber confronts what he calls the ‘lack of attention’ of both academics and policy-makers to the role of large-scale migration in that part of the world in determining ‘peace, security and the sovereignty of nations’. Basing his analysis largely on Kunz's (1973, 1981) ‘kinetic’ …
Moving People in Ethiopia: Development, Displacement and the State. Edited by Alula Pankhurst and Francois Piguet
With this volume, Alula Pankhurst and François Piguet have set an impressive standard for country studies of migration. The volume comprises 13 case studies, mostly by Ethiopian scholars, covering a wide range of migration types and experiences that have taken place within Ethiopia’s borders over the past half century: displacement caused by development including dam construction, irrigation projects, and urbanization strategies; resettlement of …
Governmentality in Motion: 25 Years of Ethiopia's Experience of Famine and Migration Policy
In the 25 years since the 1984–85 Great Sahelian Famine, the Ethiopian state has used the management of mobility as a tool to control the poorest of its citizens. In this paper I examine three cases: the forced resettlement of people during the 1980s, the repatriation of refugees during the mid-1990s and the more recent resettlement of food insecure people in the early 2000s. I argue that in each of these cases, people’s movements have been contr…
Somali Transnational Activism and Integration in the UK: Mutually Supporting Strategies
This paper considers the simultaneous processes of transnational activism and integration amongst Somalis living in the UK. It argues that, rather than challenging integration, diasporic Somalis' involvement in transnational activism may actually support integration, and vice versa. Transnational engagement fulfils a range of functions that relate not only to the country of origin, but also to community formation in the UK. Such practices may, in…
Somalia rising: Things Are Starting to Change for the World's Longest Failed State
This article examines some of the challenges facing the new Somali National Government in Mogadishu, following the conclusion of the Transitional Federal Charter, and the resulting surprises in the emergence of the post-Transitional leadership. The article also assesses the dynamics which allowed the emergence of relative newcomers into important roles, especially President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. A sense of optimism surrounds the Mogadishu admini…
‘Voluntary’ Repatriation and Reintegration
This chapter focuses on the ‘voluntary’ repatriation and reintegration of refugees and highlights the difficult challenges faced by refugees who return ‘home’. It examines repatriation in its various forms, from the most voluntary to more coerced forms of deportation and return, as well as the post-return experience of (re)integration and homecoming/homemaking. After discussing return in historical context, it underscores the need for clearer ben…
Diaspora returnees to Somaliland: Heroes of development or job-stealing scoundrels?
Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s borderlands are key sites of population mobility and migration. Not only do these areas host most of the 800,000 refugees who have entered Ethiopia from neighbouring countries, they also are home to populations whose movements are heavily influenced by the livelihoods, trade, environment, and border management regimes working in their areas. These systems create opportunities for, and blockages to, movement within borderlands and acros…
Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians …
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