ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the experience of some Sudanese communities who have taken refuge in neighbouring Uganda, where they are obliged to live in formal refugee settlements. It explains the efforts to overcome consequent constraints on their livelihood activities. The chapter describes the structural obstacles to finding money. Moving up and down looking for money' is a constant occupation in the settlements, particularly for family heads with unexpected expenses to meet, or for students seeking a way to pay school fees. Ethnographic research was conducted in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement in Masindi District in 19961997, with follow-up visits in 2002 and 2004. Agricultural land has been allocated to refugees for the purpose, albeit often in locations far from markets and disadvantaged by environmental conditions. In many Ugandan refugee settlements both men and women are involved in cutting and burning trees to make charcoal, which they sell. Such economic activity may take new sociocultural forms.
