Autorentext

Hanno Brankamp is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow.

Klappentext

In Occupied Refuge, Hanno Brankamp challenges the view of refugee camps as a indispensable safe havens. Drawing on fieldwork in Kenya’s Kakuma camp, he shows that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Brankamp argues that by co-managing these camps with international aid organizations, the Kenyan state becomes a willing accomplice in planetary humanitarian containment that seeks to pacify its own peripheral territories, securitize unwanted migrants, and impose national rule.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1

1. Refuge 37
2. Occupation 69
3. Dis/Order 101
4. Community 129
5. Extraction 159
   Conclusion 183
   Notes 197
   Bibliography 221
   Index