Inside the tent: Community and government in refugee camps

Bulley, Dan

doi:10.1177/0967010613514788

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“…It will be unsurprising to scholars of the refugee regime and its common spatialisation in camps, to argue that the complex systems that underpin, design and manage camps employ advanced liberal techniques (Lippert, 1999) for effective population management (Bulley, 2014). Such processes are part of the modern, liberal state's rendering of compassion into an effective instrument for the management of disasters.…”

Section: The Rationalisation Of Compassion Through the Hotspotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hotspots and the geographies of humanitarianism

Pallister‐Wilkins

2018

Environ Plan D

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This article focuses on the humanitarian geographies of the hotspots. It argues that hotspots are humanitarian in both idea and practice by raising two fundamental questions that form the basis for the article: what is humanitarianism, and who is it for? The article understands humanitarianism as a logic of government that is more expansive than the mainstream ideal that emerged in the 20th-century. Instead humanitarianism is understood as concerning logics developed to both effectively manage disaster and to secure (in both senses of the word) imminently mobile populations for the maintenance of liberal order alongside and through the securing of life. The article takes an expansive view of humanitarian government to consider genealogies of caring and population security logics in the establishment of modern, western and liberal states. The article unsettles some of the traditional geographical understandings of humanitarianism as care for distant strangers and considers the ways compassion is rationalised by the hotspot approach. This critical reading of humanitarianism and the hotspots offers empirical weight to what has been called 'humanitarianism as liberal diagnostic', through which humanitarianism is deployed to secure both life and a liberal political order across multiple scales. KeywordsHotspots, humanitarianism, mobility, care, control, disasterOn 25 November 2016, in Moria 'hotspot' camp on Lesbos, a woman and child were killed in a fire after a gas canister attached to a hot plate exploded inside their small nylon tent. They were using the hot plate to try and keep warm. As a result of the accident, two people died and many more were injured. . . Later that month, three young men died in Moria camp and a fourth was taken to hospital in a critical condition. Survivors and friends reported that the deceased had no pre-existing medical conditions. To keep warm, the men had been burning cardboard, plastic and scraps of wood in the tents they shared. (MSF, 2017: 12)

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Section: The Rationalisation Of Compassion Through the Hotspotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hotspots and the geographies of humanitarianism

Pallister‐Wilkins

2018

Environ Plan D

140

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“…The problem of such categories that they assume a common vulnerability among the population and seek needs-based top down interventions that ignore the unique capacities and resilience of the affected groups; this stigmatizes the population by looking on them as helpless dependent victims (Gupte & Mehta, 2009). On the other hand, a deeper look would be beneficial for understanding issues like efforts to govern refugee camps and what makes the refugee community cooperate or resist in reaction to different approaches that seek control over refugees or empower them to be active agents (Bulley, 2014).…”

Section: Labels and Categoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychosocial support among refugees of conflict in developing countries

Alfadhli¹,

Drury²

2016

Intervention

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Key implications for practice Refugees of conflicts in developing countries suffer more from secondary stressors than from trauma  Refugees have intrinsic psychosocial support mechanisms to respond to these stressors.  Shared social Identity plays an important role in these mechanisms. AbstractThe aim of this paper is to examine the psychosocial needs and stressors among refugees of conflicts in developing countries, and their group-based social support mechanisms. A systematic literature search of peer reviewed journal articles (n = 60 articles) was carried out using the following factors: type (refugee); cause (conflicts); location (developing countries). As refugees move towards a prolonged urban displacement phase, needs and stressors become different than those of the acute phase. Daily stressors affect far more people than are affected by PTSD, but many psychosocial support interventions focus simply on the latter. Positive effects of social support on the mental health of displaced people are established; the process is not clear, yet group processes and identities seem to be important. We therefore suggest that the social identity approach can be applied to understand the emergence of a common refugee identity and its role in empowerment through activating social support networks.

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“…Considering the global management of displacement, Dan Bulley (2014) has described how community-building projects have become part of a bundle of humanitarian services that serve the requirements of neoliberal governmentality in refugee camps and also how refugees develop their own community practices, sometimes in resistance to this governance. The question of community looms large in Wihdat's emotional landscape, but what Wihdat's residents see themselves as struggling against is less the strictures of a humanitarian apparatus (whose felt presence is somewhat tenuous in Wihdat) and more the pressures of economics and population that have transformed camp conditions over the years.…”

Section: The Camp As An Emotional Spacementioning

confidence: 99%