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The Concerned Women of Buduburam - Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas (Paperback)
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The Concerned Women of Buduburam - Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas (Paperback)
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In The Concerned Women of Buduburam, Elizabeth Holzer offers an
unprecedented firsthand account of the rise and fall of social
protests in a long-standing refugee camp. The UN High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR) and the host government of Ghana established
the Buduburam Refugee Camp in 1990 to provide sanctuary for
refugees from the Liberian civil war (1989-2003). Long hailed as a
model of effectiveness, Buduburam offered a best-case scenario for
how to handle a refugee crisis. But what happens when refugees and
humanitarian actors disagree over humanitarian aid? In Buduburam,
refugee protesters were met with Ghanaian riot police. Holzer uses
the clash to delve into the complex and often hidden world of
humanitarian politics and refugee activism.Drawing on fifteen
months of ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana and subsequent interviews
with participants now returned to Liberia, Holzer exposes a
distinctive form of rule that accompanies humanitarian
intervention: compassionate authoritarianism. Humanitarians strive
to relieve the suffering of refugees, but refugees have little or
no access to grievance procedures, and humanitarian authorities
face little or no accountability for political failures. By casting
humanitarians and refugees as co-creators of a shared
sociopolitical world, Holzer throws into sharp relief the
contradictory elements of humanitarian crisis and of transnational
interventions in poor countries more broadly.
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