Previous page | New search |
The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Productivity of refugee camps: social and political dynamics from the Somaliland-Ethiopia border (1988-2001) |
Author: | Ciabarri, Luca |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | Afrika Spectrum |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 67-90 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Somaliland Ethiopia |
Subjects: | refugees refugee assistance social conditions |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40175222 |
Abstract: | Refugee camps are not simply places where temporary protection and primary assistance is provided, but also places in which political and social production occurs. In areas such as the Horn of Africa, with a long tradition of international interventions in the form of humanitarian aid, refugee camps have been intrinsically embedded within local social and political power structures and dynamics, which have deeply transformed both their aims and actions. This article analyses such transformations as part of a local social history, particularly under the peculiar condition of State collapse which has characterized Somaliland in the early 1990s. Furthermore, the author shows how, in the interlacing of institutional collapse, war and international interventions, new equilibriums and forms of government have emerged, thus contributing to depict a kind of genealogy of the new public realm in Somaliland, composed of various actors standing beside the State. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English, German and French. [Journal abstract] |