The Power of Local Micro Structures in the Context of Refugee Camps

Bochmann, Annett

doi:10.1093/jrs/fey018

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“…Human beings can even be their own prison wardens (ibid.). And this is what Bochmann (2018) has observed in a Burmese refugee camp. She considers the act of aid delivery as a disciplinary institution.…”

Section: Michel Foucault's Heterotopias and Disciplinary Institutionssupporting

confidence: 71%

“…She considers the act of aid delivery as a disciplinary institution. She found that in the process of rice distribution, forms of control and discipline are produced collaboratively by the camp residents themselves, and that camp structures (here regarding the ration distribution system) are not exclusively created on a meso level by governing actors or humanitarian organizations (Bochmann, 2018). It needs to be discussed to what extent refugee camps can also be considered as disciplinary institutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

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An Analytical Framework for Assessing Types of Refugee Accommodation from a Health Perspective

Dudek¹,

Brake²,

Razum³

2022

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Die Wohnsituation ist eine wichtige soziale Determinante der Gesundheit. Flüchtlinge werden auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise untergebracht. Die Messung gesundheitsrelevanter Eigenschaften von Unterkünften ist eine methodische Herausforderung. In diesem Artikel entwickeln wir einen Rahmen zur Beschreibung gesundheitsrelevanter Aspekte von Flüchtlingsunterkünften. Damit schaffen wir eine Grundlage für Studien, die untersuchen, wie sich verschiedene Arten von Unterbringung auf die Gesundheit ihrer Bewohner auswirken. Unser Ausgangspunkt ist eine paradigmatische Form der Flüchtlingsunterkunft, das Lager. Mit ihren oft extremen Merkmalen können Lager dabei helfen, die große Vielfalt der unterkunftsbezogenen Gesundheitsfaktoren zu erfassen. Die Forschung zu Flüchtlingslagern stützt sich auf verschiedene wissenschaftliche Fachrichtungen und theoretische Konzepte – insbesondere auf die Arbeiten von Arendt, Goffman, Foucault und Agamben. Diese Konzepte, interpretiert aus der Perspektive der sozialen Determinanten von Gesundheit, bilden die Grundlage für unseren analytischen Rahmen für alle Arten von Flüchtlingsunterkünften. Wir zeigen, dass Wohnen im Kontext von Flüchtlingsunterkünften unter folgenden Gesichtspunkten betrachtet werden muss: (1) dem breiteren politischen Kontext; (2) der unmittelbaren Umgebung der Unterkunft sowie ihren physischen und sozialen Abgrenzungen; und (3) die Strukturen und Prozesse innerhalb der Unterkunft, die Mittel der sozialen Kontrolle schaffen können. Eine vierte, subjektive Dimension ergänzt unseren analytischen Rahmen. Dieser Rahmen bildet die Grundlage für künftige Forschungsarbeiten zur Ermittlung der Zusammenhänge zwischen den Merkmalen von Flüchtlingsunterkünften und der Gesundheit ihrer Bewohner.

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Section: Michel Foucault's Heterotopias and Disciplinary Institutionssupporting

confidence: 71%

Section: Michel Foucault's Heterotopias and Disciplinary Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Analytical Framework for Assessing Types of Refugee Accommodation from a Health Perspective

Dudek¹,

Brake²,

Razum³

2022

Z’Flucht

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“…Some of these rules, known in the camp and established by state or international actors, are systematically disregarded by residents and camp authorities in everyday life. I discuss this phenomenon, which can equally be framed as part of local camp law, at length as "public camp secrets" (Bochmann, 2019(Bochmann, , 2021.…”

Section: The Camp Public and The Materiality Of Encampmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In agreementalthough conflicts between authorities and across levels cannot be ruled out-there is a reciprocal consensus that conflicts, problems, and cases are preferably resolved at the local level. Thus, the section level is not only an important government structure in the refugee camp (Bochmann, 2019); it is also of central importance for the legal system on the ground. 17 (Interview protocol, section leader 1).…”

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Pluralism and local law in extraterritorial spaces

Bochmann

2023

Law Soc Rev

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Based on ethnographic research, this article shows how legal orders are being established in spaces where the state law is absent. The case of refugee camps—often discussed as sites of legal limbo and state of exception—seems to be a space of legal pluralism. However, when observing local legal practices, this pluralism is dissolved into a powerful local camp law. This characteristic type of legal order is produced by social camp‐specific mechanisms, camp materiality as well as the remaking of pre‐camp structures. Therefore, refugee camps should be viewed as extraterritorial spaces with a high degree of legal autonomy that enables and forces residents to create a local camp law. The findings of this study add to the literature of law and order in camps and to the debates on plural configurations in extraterritorial spaces.

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“…However, the exodus of Syrian refugees, as in the context of forced migration governance, shifted the attention of scholars to study the attitudes towards refugees (Alrababah et al 2020). There also exist 23 similar studies on host community members and Congolese refugees in Rwanda (Fajth et al 2019), Burmese refugee camp residents' social structures in Thailand (Bochmann 2018), Ivorian refugees in Liberia (Hartman and Morse 2020), and attitudes towards refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa (Rosenzweig and Zhou 2021). Yet, these studies focus either on the host community side or on the refugee side of the subject.…”

Section: Intergroup Encountersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Broadening the positionality in migration studies: Assigned insider category

Irgil

2020

Migration Studies

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This article contributes to the debates on positionality in migration studies by introducing assigned insider as a new category. I define it as a position when both the interviewees and the researcher are of the same local origin in which the researcher is considered ‘an insider of the host community’ and the interview questions are about a migrant group. I developed this category based on interviews with host community members during my field study in Bursa, Turkey, where I was born and raised. Previous studies focused on the researcher being an insider from a migrant community or being an outsider conducting research on a migrant community different from his/her own. Assigned insider has two elements that require it to be considered differently: same local origin operates as an overriding feature that goes beyond ethnicity and the interviewees being from the host community involves different ethical aspects than that from a migrant community. I argue that these reflect on the researcher during the interviews through active and passive discontent manifestations of the interviewees. While the former emphasises the direct confrontations of the interviewees that lead them to ‘correct’ the researcher, the latter manifests itself through non-verbal ways, which can result in refraining from answering questions.

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The Power of Local Micro Structures in the Context of Refugee Camps

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

An Analytical Framework for Assessing Types of Refugee Accommodation from a Health Perspective

An Analytical Framework for Assessing Types of Refugee Accommodation from a Health Perspective

Pluralism and local law in extraterritorial spaces

Broadening the positionality in migration studies: Assigned insider category

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