Browsing by Author "Kaboggoza, Joseph"

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From outsider to the other : refugee identity, citizenship, and development in Nakivale, Uganda, 1969-2022
(Dialogue on African Development.. Nairobi: CEDRED Publications, 2026-08) Tunanukye, Nicholas; Kaboggoza, Joseph; Jepkemboi, Anne
This chapter interrogates the dynamics of exclusion through a historical study of Nakivale Refugee Settlement in southwestern Uganda, one of Africa's oldest and largest refugee settlements. The study has been prompted by the fact that Africa's development trajectory has been profoundly shaped by the movement of peoples across political borders, yet refugee populations remain among the continent's most systematically excluded constituencies. Uganda's 2006 Refugee Act is internationally celebrated as a model of progressive humanitarianism, granting refugees rights to work, move freely, and access services. Yet the lived experiences of Nakivale's residents reveal a persistent paradox: formal inclusion coexists with substantive exclusion. Refugees are incorporated into development frameworks as beneficiaries but remain spatially segregated, politically marginalised, and socially "othered" by the very institutional architecture designed to integrate them. Drawing on archival research and oral history interviews, this chapter traces how colonial administrative legacies, post-independence citizenship regimes, and evolving humanitarian architectures have reproduced this paradox. Employing Individual Agency Theory, the study foregrounds refugee agency alongside structural constraint, documenting how displaced populations have challenged dominant identity constructions and negotiated belonging across generations. It contributes to three debates central to the conference theme: historically, it repositions refugee settlement as a constitutive feature of post-colonial state formation; in the present, it demonstrates how development interventions that ignore historical roots of exclusion risk reproducing the inequalities they seek to address; and for the future, it advances recommendations that move beyond formal rights toward genuine citizenship recognition by repositioning refugees not as burdens on development, but as active co-producers of it.
History of Kiryandongo refugee settlement, Kiryandongo district, western Uganda 1954-2018
(Kyambogo University [unpublished work], 2022-08) Kaboggoza, Joseph
The purpose of this study was to examine the history of Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Kiryandongo district from 1954-2018. It analysed the geography of the place, how the name Kiryandongo came about, and described the place of Kiryandongo and its people during the colonial period. It showed the genesis of her becoming a refugee settlement area. The study examined Uganda‘s refugee laws and policies and how they influenced the flows of refugees in Kiryandongo in post-colonial Uganda. This was guided by three specific objectives which were: to trace the origins and history of Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement; to analyse the refugee flows and how they influenced the growth of Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, and to examine the changes and transformation in Kiryandongo after the arrival of refugees. The study adopted a qualitative approach; data was collected using documentary review guide and oral interviews. Purposive sampling method was adopted to identify key informants who were interviewed. Data was analysed using documentary analysis and organised in themes that resulted into different chapters in this dissertation. Findings indicate that the name Kiryandongo was hatched from the historic relations with the Congolese, the British wars led to depopulation and land was made government ranches, part of which was later transformed into a refugee settlement. Refugees have transformed Kiryandongo, since her becoming a district in 2009 was intended to extend services to the people including refugees. Four major refugee flows were mapped and they are South Sudanese, Kenyans, Congolese and Rwandese. Other occcupants of the settlement are internally displaced persons from Acholi and Bugishu Sub regions. Their arrival promoted a number of changes and transformation leading to peaceful co-existence, integration and reducing government burden on refugees. This breaks the narratives that hosting refugees threaten the host country‘s security, wastage of tax payers‘ money and development of under development. The study opens room for historical documentation of other Refugee Settlements in Uganda