Une anthropologue dans un camp de réfugiés

Vermylen, Aurore

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“…Narrative methods raise questions of reliability, anonymity, and consent (Krause, 2017;McDowell, 2018;Thomson, 2010). While beyond the scope of this paper, other scholars have highlighted how language, surveillance, trauma, suspicion, and humanitarian governance shape power relations, positionality, and narratives in particular ways in camp(scape)s (Bouillon et al, 2005;Brankamp, 2021;Clark-Kazak, 2009, p. 13;Hyndman, 2001;Minca, 2022;Powles, 2004;Turner, 2004;Vermylen, 2016;Carter-White, 2022).…”

Section: Life-history Methodsmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…This was usually a simple check-in, often just a wave, but it took time each day (both as the office was over three kilometres from the camp gate, and waiting in line to report). It also reinforced a "particularity" shaping research within camp boundaries (Vermylen, 2016): the commandant's power to rule by decree in the camp. For example, part-way through my research, a sudden decree banned bicycle and motorcycletaxis in the camp -stalling livelihoods and making the delivery of goods and the mobility of people much more difficult.…”

Section: Hardening Boundaries: Decrees and Practicalitiesmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Ethically (un)bounding camp research: Life histories within and beyond camp boundaries

Weima

2021

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The changing enforcement and porosity of camp boundaries have implications for research in camps and their environs. Camp research is increasingly blurring their locational and categorical boundaries. However, in contexts where camp boundaries are being actively “hardened,” researchers must be attentive to possible effects of research across boundaries for those who are targeted by encampment. Research has an ethical imperative to challenge exclusionary boundaries and categories, recognising the many ways these constructed boundaries are already crossed and contested. It must also conscientiously negotiate and even defer to boundaries in research when participants may otherwise be at risk because of the underlying violence that maintains camps as discrete spatial technologies of power. In conducting life‐history research with Burundian refugees in Tanzania, I chose to “bound” my research with Burundian refugees to within camp boundaries, to reduce the risk to research participants. I argue that although research in camps may risk reifying camp boundaries, it can nevertheless conscientiously reach beyond and challenge camp boundaries through attentive methods. The stories recounted in this research reach far beyond camp boundaries, and include experiences of Burundian border‐crossers seeking liveable lives in diverse places and situations, not always of their own choosing. Life histories thus weave an imperfect, inchoate “minor cartography” of often‐invisibilised, diverse sites of refugee lives, bound up with the changing power and policing of camp boundaries shaping refugees' trajectories in the broader “campscape” over time.

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Section: Hardening Boundaries: Decrees and Practicalitiesmentioning

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Ethically (un)bounding camp research: Life histories within and beyond camp boundaries

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2021

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“…See the extensive bibliography structuring Aurore Vermylen's (2016) article. 16 Notion developed by Didier Fassin (2006).…”

Section: Re-evangelization Through Female Migrants' Voicesmentioning

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God Has a Woman's Voice. Liturgical Music and Agency of Eastern European Migrant Women in Rome

Lacoste¹

2023

Musik Und Klangkultur

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Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps

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Brankamp

2022

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Camps and camp-like spaces have long sparked interest among geographers, sociologists, historians, architects, political scientists, and anthropologists alike. This scholarship has varyingly conceived of the camp as a modern technology of humanitarian aid and population management, a thanatopolitical institution, a site of protest and resistance, a metaphor of sovereign exclusion, or a means of colonial expansion, and more. However, comparatively few studies have explicitly focused on the methodologies of actually doing research in/on camps. The characteristics of camps, that make them of interest to researchers in the first place, generate methodological, ethical, and practical challenges for conducting research. Consequently, this special section contributes to an already multifaceted and growing body of camp studies literature by dwelling specifically on the "how" of studying camps. It does so by drawing on broader critical methodologies

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Une anthropologue dans un camp de réfugiés

Abstract: Ethnographier l'intime, les silences et les situations de violences Une anthropologue dans un camp de réfugiés Comment faire une ethnographie dans un contexte d'imposition discursive institutionnelle ?

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Ethically (un)bounding camp research: Life histories within and beyond camp boundaries

Ethically (un)bounding camp research: Life histories within and beyond camp boundaries

God Has a Woman's Voice. Liturgical Music and Agency of Eastern European Migrant Women in Rome

Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps

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