Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-108-82160-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains difficult there. Building on empirical research with refugees in a Ugandan camp, Ulrike Krause offers nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees who mainly escaped the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This book explores how risks of gender-based violence against women, in particular, but also against men, persist despite and partly due to their settlement in the camp and the system established there. It reflects on modes and shortcomings of humanitarian protection, changes in gender relations, as well as strategies that the women and men use to cope with insecurities, everyday struggles, and structural problems occurring across different levels and temporalities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krause, Ulrike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Gender-Based Violence in the Camp and Beyond; 3. Humanitarian Aid and the Camp Landscape; 4. Changing Gender Relations in the Camp; 5. Coping during and with the Difficult Life in the Refugee Camp; 6. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Krause, Ulrike
Ulrike Krause is Junior Professor of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) and the Institute for Social Sciences, Osnabrück University, Germany, and affiliated Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She is co-editor of the volume Gender, Violence, Refugees (2017), and co-founder and co-editor of the German Journal of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies. Her research focuses on the conflict-displacement nexus, refugee protection, gender, gender-based violence, resilience, and agency; with a regional concentration on Sub-Saharan Africa as well as global developments.