#12630. Bright lines and fault lines: the politics of refuge in independence-era Mozambique

November 2026publication date
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Abstract:
This article focuses on independence-era Mozambique, examining how currents of ideological homogeneity, rooted in the 1960s struggle against colonial rule, contributed to displacement in the 1980s. Frelimo, the movement that fought Portuguese colonial rule and took power at independence in 1975, crafted a vision of political life intolerant of any challenge to orthodoxy, leaving those who did not share its vision no place in its polity. Once white supremacist-sponsored political violence evolved into a vernacular civil war, beginning in late 1982, the country saw a destructive displacement of enormous proportions. As a prologue to this crisis, the article considers how people who did not share Frelimo’s political vision underwent a political displacement and sought refuge from ideology. Come the crisis of the 1980s, these “proto-refugees”–pre-positioned to withdraw territorially–became physically as well as politically displaced, and thus understood as refugees in conventional thinking.
Keywords:
displacement; ideology; independence; Mozambique; refugee

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