Ethiopia's Refugee Policy Overhaul: Implications on the out of Camp Policy Regime and Rights to Residence, Movement and Engagement in Gainful Employment

Abstract

Ethiopia became the second largest refugee hosting country in Africa
– with the count of registered refugees and asylum seekers reaching
905,831 as of 31 August 2018.1 Displaced from twenty-six countries
worldwide and variedly affected by different circumstances,2 most
refugees fled from protracted crisis, famine, instability, forced
military conscription and repression in South Sudan, Somalia and
Eritrea.3