The socio-cultural and Economic consequence of Tigray war on Returnees in Hawzen Woreda: A Case of Megab Tabia in Eastern Tigray-Ethiopia

Abstract

Due to the Tigray war opened in 2020 millions of people have been displaced from their home land for the sake of peace and stability. The war devastates communities’ infrastructure, like schools, health care center, factories, and individuals house, not only these damages people’s mentality. The main objective of this research study was to investigate the socio cultural and Economic consequences of Tigray war on returnee. Under the main objective, the socio-cultural situation of the returnees as a result of the war, the survival strategies of the war affected people, and the reintegration challenges of returnees were examined. To meet these objectives, focus group discussion, key informant interview, and household survey were employed to collect the data. The research design, and approach was descriptive, and qualitative respectively. The study shows the sociocultural situation of returnee mainly food insecurity, social disarticulation, jobless ness, morbidity, and sexual violence have been increased. They have been also challenged to reform their former life in terms of their economy, and mental health, and encountered several problems to serve their life like having less access to medical services, trauma healing process. They were enforced to serve their life engaging in begging, resilience and adaptability were used as means survival strategy to sustain their life