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This paper studies the security implications of internal displacement shocks for host communities. It focuses on changes in wealth within host communities induced by the inflow of internally displaced persons (IDPs) as a potential mechanism that triggers local conflicts. The sudden insurgency of the jihadist terrorist organization Boko Haram, which led to the internal displacement of over 2.5 million persons in northeastern Nigeria, is used as a quasi-natural experiment. Applying both a two-way fixed effects analysis and an instrumental variable strategy based on historical ethnic ties between the areas of displacement and receiving areas, the results show that the presence of IDPs is associated with a decrease in aggregate wealth and an increase in inequality within host communities, between 2010 and 2019. These effects are accompanied by an increased risk of conflict onset in the short and long run. The inequality-conflict link is likely to be caused by grievances among low-wealth segments of the host community towards new arrivals rather than by changes in social cohesion within host communities, which increased in response to the inflow of IDPs. The analysis further indicates that an improvement in IDPs' living conditions is accompanied by a decrease in violence and improved relations between hosts and IDPs. Taken together, findings from this study call for a two-pronged immediate relief and recovery approach that alleviates adverse economic effects on vulnerable segments of host communities and increases IDPs' welfare in displacement settings.

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Ethnic relations. --- Ethnic conflict.

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"Publikacja powstała na podstawie badań Autorki przeprowadzonych wśród społeczności asyryjsko-aramejskiej w Szwecji. Asyryjczycy/Aramejczycy trafili do Skandynawii w późnych latach 60. XX wieku, uciekając z Turcji, Syrii, Iraku i Libanu przed wojnami oraz brakiem perspektyw. Obecnie stanowią prężną, liczącą ponad sto dwadzieścia tysięcy osób diasporę, która na różne sposoby przyczynia się do rozwoju swojej przybranej ojczyzny. Szwedzki model, aczkolwiek niedoskonały, w ich przypadku się sprawdził. Autorka opisuje politykę migracyjną i integracyjną Szwecji, etapy i formy instytucjonalizacji w tym kraju, historię wspólnoty asyryjsko-aramejskiej na Bliskim Wschodzie, dynamikę wewnętrzną tej grupy i jej relacje z otoczeniem oraz powiązania transnarodowe. W monografii został poruszony niezwykle aktualny temat, jakim jest akulturacja osób z Bliskiego Wschodu w Europie. Podjęto go jednak z nowej na gruncie polskim perspektywy - ukazując, jak z integracją radzą sobie bliskowschodni chrześcijanie."-- Provided by publisher.

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The author presents a historical approach to the issue of the Polish national revival in the contemporary Vilnius region in the late 1980s and early 1990s, paying particular attention to the efforts aimed at establishing an autonomous Polish-speaking administrative unit within Lithuania. The theme of nationality policy in the countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is continually returning in the international public sphere. For political reasons, the events described in the book have historically been controversial and continue to affect bilateral relations between Poland and Lithuania; their origin is therefore well worth learning about.

Ethnic relations. --- Ethnic conflict.