People in South Sudan have experienced decades of forced displacement and cross-border mobility, resulting in families being split across the country as well as across neighbouring Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. As of 2021, more than four million South Sudanese citizens have been displaced. Over the past four years, over 500,000 refugees and over 1.1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to their place of habitual residence.
This policy brief discusses the rupture that displacement and return constitute in the lives of women and argues for a more gender-sensitive approach to policy design and programming around mobility in South Sudan.
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