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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