"Turner's book offers fascinating insights into the daily realities
in a refugee camp hidden under the bureaucratic model imposed by
the relief agencies. In the UNHCR staff's blueprint the camp is an
a-political, homogeneous space and refugees are innocent victims
who have to be empowered. Turner shows - with the help of both
vivid ethnography and seminal interpretations - that reality is
strikingly different." . Pieter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam
"This work represents a major contribution to the understanding
of camp life in refugee contexts. Given the limited number of texts
in English on the Burundi conflict and refugee contexts, this work
will be of considerable significance. It is the first to engage
with the recent post-1994 refugee population on the ground and
based on original material that is derived from primary research in
a refugee camp." . Patricia Daley, Oxford University
Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in
Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent
"disciplining mechanisms" of humanitarian agencies, led by the
UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid
nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. While the refugees
are expected to behave as innocent, helpless victims, the question
of victimhood among Burundian Hutu is increasingly challenged,
following the 1993 massacres in Burundi and the Rwandan genocide.
The book explores how different groups within the camp apply
different strategies to cope with these issues and how the question
of innocence and victimhood is itself imbued with ambiguity, as
young men struggle to recuperate their masculinity and their
political subjectivity.
Simon Turner is Head of the research unit on Migration,
Development and Conflict at the Danish Institute for International
Studies. He has worked on the conflict in Burundi, doing
ethnographic fieldwork among refugees and the Diaspora in East
Africa and Europe. He has published on masculinity, Diaspora and
conflict, sovereignty and public authority, and refugee relief
work."
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