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Ban Vinai - The Refugee Camp (Paperback, New)
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Ban Vinai - The Refugee Camp (Paperback, New)
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Lynellyn Long documents the reality of daily life in Ban Vinai, a
refugee camp in northeast Thailand. Based on the author's
ethnographic experience of living and working in the camp, the book
offers rich narrative descriptions of the lives of the Hmong and
lowland Lao refugees. Long describes the lives of five families
over the course of a year, recounting interactions with camp relief
workers and the complexities of the larger relief system, how their
family relationships and social roles change as a result of camp
life, and their desires and expectations of the future. Long
explores the effects of long-term residence in the camp, where many
of the refugees have lived for more than ten years because of the
lack of a permanent international solution. She shows that although
the camps provide urgently needed aid, they foster a sense of
powerlessness, isolation and dislocation that can radically alter
the lives of the inhabitants. The book gives the historical,
political and economic background of Ban Vinai and suggests what
lessons may be derived for other refugee situations.
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