Social Technology and Refugee Encampment in Kenya

Jaji, Rose

doi:10.1093/jrs/fer046

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“…Through this optic, places like Guantanamo (Aradau, 2007), or the exceptional geographies delineated by the War on Terror, can be seen as archetypical examples of the spaces of exception defining the political nomos of our contemporary world (Minca, 2006). Similarly, detention centres for irregular migrants (Perera, 2002), refugee camps in Tanzania (Turner, 2005) or Kenya (Jayi, 2011), as much as, more broadly, the treatment of irregular migrants (Kumar Rajaram, 2006), are portrayed as reconfiguring world spaces into a colonial present.…”

Section: The Refugee Exceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refugees and Empire

Novak

2020

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

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The refugee and institutional order Contemporary theorisations of imperialism and empire, in their disparate analytical approaches and political inclinations, share a particular concern with the figure of the refugee. This is not surprising, as histories of empires and refugeeing are inextricably linked to each other. Emerging in its modern form at the beginning of the 20 th century from the ashes of European empires, the modern refugee institution has functioned since then as a discursive and material cog for the assertion and upholding of key principles and practices in the international sphere, and of the hierarchies associated to them. The refugee is and has always been deeply implicated with the disruption, establishment and consolidation of international politico-institutional orders.

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Section: The Refugee Exceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refugees and Empire

Novak

2020

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

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“…Yet, even more importantly, anthropologists have shown that refugees themselves have challenged refugee classifications. While classifications may shape refugees' subjectivities, this happens through a dynamic process of criticism, adaptation and rejection (Fresia 2002;Corbet 2008;Dedenis 2006;Tallio 2007;Inhetveen 2010;Turner 2010;Jaji 2011;Jansen 2011;Ringel 2011). Far from passively waiting to be labelled, refugees try to make the most of classifications.…”

Section: Fifty Shades Of Refugees: Why Classifications Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result, camps have become emblematic of biomedical migration control. 42 To underscore the dehumanizing effects of refugee relief, scholars have compared camps to prisons, psychiatric institutions and even concentration camps (Agamben 2002;Agier 2002;Inhetveen 2010;Jaji 2011).…”

Section: Seeing Like a Refugee Agency 15mentioning

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Seeing Like a Refugee Agency: A Short History of UNHCR Classifications in Central Africa (1961–2015)

Glasman¹

2017

Journal of Refugee Studies

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This article looks at the evolution of international refugee protection, using the refugee classifications of UNHCR as an entry point. It is argued that, since the creation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), access to refugee aid has been globalized but has also become more and more stratified. The UNHCR has expanded its activities beyond the frontiers of Europe, but has also tailored aid for specific groups. This is because protection work increasingly articulates different modes of classifying refugees. Three modes of ordering are explored here in the Central African case: the legal approach, the labour (or developmental) approach and the basic needs (or vulnerability) approach. These modes refer to different regimes of action, different actors of protection and eventually different subjectivities. Each mode of classification, it is argued, is the product of a specific period of the UNHCR's history.

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“…org/10.1080/13629395.2015.1078125 Accepted version downloaded from SOAS Research Online: http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23972/ 8 and runs refugee camps (Seeley, 2013). Camps can be used to hold refugees temporarily, before their proposed eventual repatriation to their country of origin, thereby furthering the political aim of non-integration of refugees (Jaji, 2012). These factors notwithstanding, the perception that refugees pose a security risk is often understood to be a key impetus for a policy of encampment.…”

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confidence: 99%

Explaining the (Non-)Encampment of Syrian Refugees: Security, Class and the Labour Market in Lebanon and Jordan

Turner

2015

Mediterranean Politics

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In Lebanon and Jordan the (non-)encampment of Syrian refugees is serving states' labour market goals. The Lebanese economy 'requires' large numbers of non-encamped low-wage Syrian workers, but the Jordanian regime assists its Transjordanian support base by restricting poor Syrians' access to the labour market through encampment. While acknowledging the importance of both states' differing historical experiences hosting refugees, and the security and budgetary motivations for policies of (non-)encampment, this article uses a critical political economy analysis of economic and labour market statistics to dislodge the centrality of the security discourses that increasingly inform discussions of refugee populations and the policies directed towards them. It demonstrates that the camp is not only a space of humanitarianism or a fertile ground for armed militancy, but a tool through which states spatially segregate those refugees, of certain socio-economic classes, whom they deem surplus to labour market requirements.

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Social Technology and Refugee Encampment in Kenya

Cited by 62 publications

References 7 publications

Refugees and Empire

Refugees and Empire

Seeing Like a Refugee Agency: A Short History of UNHCR Classifications in Central Africa (1961–2015)

Explaining the (Non-)Encampment of Syrian Refugees: Security, Class and the Labour Market in Lebanon and Jordan

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