Ulrike Krause (Universitat Osnabruck)

Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan refugee camp, this book shows how risks prevail for refugees despite and partly due to their settlement in the camp and the system established to protect them, and hones in on the strategies used by people to protect themselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781108821605
• ISBN-10: 110882160X
• Artikelnr.: 66873218

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.