ABSTRACT
This chapter considers resettlement of refugees and their reception by people of the same or similar ethnicity in the new situation. It discusses a case of resettlement in which refugees found their own solutions and spontaneously resettled. The chapter describes the refugee assimilation and the different factors that affect men and women refugees. In the case of the Zambian Tonga people who were resettled because of the Kariba Dam, women were more resistant to change than men. Once relocated, younger women did have more flexibility in dating and marriage than formerly. Women are able, through marriage to settlers, to change the relationship to their advantage, as refugee women may enter a settler village as in-marrying wives with full social status and economic perogatives. The Angolan young women who have come to Zambia undergo the long traditional girl's ritual, which is attended heavily by Zambians.
