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Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp
Offering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan refugee camp, this book shows how risks prevail for refugees despite and partly due to their settlement in the camp and the system established to protect them, and hones in on the strategies used by people to protect themselves.
Gender, Violence, Refugees
Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return. The essays show how these factors lead to various forms of direct, indirect and structural violence. This ranges from discussions of norms reflected in policy documents and practise, the relationship between relief structures and living conditions in camps, to forced military recruitment and forced return, and covers countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Development-Oriented Refugee Assistance
Current trends clearly reveal that the majority of refugee movements take place in the less developed global South while the global North increases asylum restrictions. A suitable approach that takes these trends into account is development-oriented refugee assistance. It aims at bridging the gap between emergency aid and development as well as sharing the burdens between the global South and North. Guided by the research question "How can a development-oriented approach to refugee assistance be delivered in a way that is sustainable, efficient and gender-sensitive?" the epistemological interest of Ulrike Krause's thesis is distinguished in three research aims: 1. analyses of the concepts of...
Reflections on Camps – Space, Agency, Materiality
Camps as a global and ubiquitous mass phenomenon of the present and a flexible isolation tool for/against specific socially, politically, or ethnically defined groups are at the centre of current policies and societal debates. In the present volume, the authors explore camps as (cultural) spaces in a broad sense and deal with their complex dimensions as sites of the Modern. They examine camp spaces and their social configurations, physical/architectural qualities, symbolic functions as well as cultural representations in an intent to define the inscribed ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes of the phenomenon. Positioned within different disciplinary contexts (Contemporary History, Vis...
Health in Diversity – Diversity in Health
European public discourse often frames (forced) migration solely as a security issue and ignores the implications of societal diversity for health, quality-of-life and well-being, in both Africa and Europe. The present volume offers an interdisciplinary and international look at the relationship between refugees, diversity, and health, including health care policies, socio-political framework conditions, environmental factors, the situation in refugee camps, quality-of-life approaches and economical perspectives.
Linking Refugee Protection with Development Assistance
What does it take to link refugee and development aid and implement it? This is the guiding thought of the book. By means of a multi-method approach including research reviews, field studies in a refugee settlement in Uganda, participatory observations, expert interviews and ero-epic dialogues, the author developed a study that reveals the complexities and challenges of protection and assistance. After analyzing historic and current trends of refugee protection, development aid and gender equality promotion, previous endeavors to link refugee aid with development are explored. Based on these analyses and the latest operational standards, the author elaborates 25 necessary features for realizing development-oriented refugee assistance. These features are applied to the case study in Uganda which provides insights into multi-sectoral programs striving to promote refugees to become self-sufficient.
Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees
Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence. The collection bears witness to their struggles, while also highlighting their aspirations for safety, settlement, and social inclusion in their host societies and new homes.
