Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Djibouti's Markazi camp for refugees from Yemen between 2016 and 2018, this article examines the complex motivating factors that drove a subset of Yemenis to seek refuge in the Horn of Africa. Although the primary reason for their flight to the Horn of Africa was the ongoing war, a secondary but not inconsequential driver of many of these Yemeni refugees’ current displacement was their family histories of transnational migrations and interethnic marriages. This article argues that, for this group, it was their “mixed” ( muwallad ) Arab and African parentage and resulting alienation in Yemen that made their flight imaginable—and, in their view, imperative. Although “mixed motive migration” is not unusual, this example underscores how spatial and social (im)mobilities in Yemen and the Horn of Africa region have been co-constituted across generations. More importantly, it has critical implications for the recently adopted Global Compact on Refugees, which promotes (among other solutions) the “local integration” of refugees in their proximate host societies.

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“祖父的过错”：也门的第三代移民寻求避难

本文借鉴 2016 年至 2018 年在吉布提的 Markazi 也门难民营进行的人种学研究，探讨了驱使一部分也门人在非洲之角寻求庇护的复杂激励因素。尽管他们逃往非洲之角的主要原因是持续的战争，但许多也门难民目前流离失所的次要但并非无关紧要的驱动因素是他们的跨国移民和种族间婚姻的家族史。这篇文章认为，对于这个群体来说，正是他们的“混合”（muwallad）阿拉伯和非洲血统以及由此产生的在也门的异化使他们的逃亡成为可能——而且在他们看来，这是势在必行的。虽然“混合动机移民”并不罕见，这个例子强调了也门和非洲之角地区的空间和社会（不动）流动是如何跨代共同构成的。更重要的是，它对最近通过的全球难民契约具有重要意义，该契约促进（除其他解决方案外）难民在其邻近的收容社会中的“本地融合”。