Taffesse, Tesfaye(PhD)Messele, Solomon2018-06-122023-11-182018-06-122023-11-182013-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/380The outbreak of the 1998-2000, Eritrea-Ethiopia Border War over badme and some Afar inhabited areas of southern Eritrea resulted in reverse cross border involuntary movement or flight or displacement of several thousands of Eritreans among them were the Pastoral and Coastal Afar people. The flight movement of these people was by and large towards Northern Ethiopia and Southwestern Djibouti where the inhabitants are Afar. [The flight was on both directions.) This study focused on the displaced Eritrean Afars and among them too it is limited to the study of only those refugees settled in the Aysaita refugee Camp. It is located near Assayita town, in Assayita wereda, one of the ancients and developed areas in the Afar region. The focus of the study is on the possible positive and negative experiences of the camp residents and their impact these Afar camp residents on the Host Afar society and the local economy and environment of the Assayita town and its surrounding areas and rural communities. Besides, the study also attempted to investigate relationships between the refugee and local Afars, non Afar residents and with officials in the Assayita town and wereda and their relations with INGOs and the Federal and Regional State institutions and authorities. Moreover, it attempted to see the processes of accommodation and integration of the camp residents but the local Afar and non Afar community members and by the local Afar regional state and Assayita wereda and town officials. To find answers/explanations to the stated issues the researcher employed different qualitative methods as well as secondary sources (reports on the refugee support and assistance operations) which were obtained from the Refugee Assistance – programme or refugee administration officials and from both NGOs (WFP, UNDP, UNHCR, APDA and other agencies), and from reports produced by the Government and NGOs operators in the Assayita and Afar refugee assistance workers and from the regional state and NGOs produced published and unpublished reports. The perspective followed in this study is that the Data obtained from the field has been analyzed and combined to form the present monograph. The findings of the research include: significant social and economic impacts on the local environment. The refugees have not been isolated and rather they have used their clan linage/kin relations and these linkages between the refugees, the Afar community and the Afar authorities in the regional and Assayita administrations has been to the benefit of the Afar refugees. So this has enabled them to benefit from social services of the town and regional administration. They have not been discriminated contrasted to the experience of other refugees. Because they feel that they are at home in Afar region and among their people the Afar. Finally, the findings show that first the war displaced Afar settlement has not been seen as having negative consequences on the society and did not pose pressure on local environmental and other resources and services. There has been no tension between the locals and the camp residentsenRefugeesThesis