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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501701214
035 _a(DE-B1597)496595
035 _a(OCoLC)933591655
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082 0 4 _a362.87/809667
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHolzer, Elizabeth
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Concerned Women of Buduburam :
_bRefugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas /
_cElizabeth Holzer.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (208 p.) :
_b1 halftone, 1 table
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tPart I. Everyday Politics in Crisis --
_t1. Achieving Everyday Life in Humanitarian Crisis --
_t2. Civic Engagement in the Refugee Camp --
_t3. Bifurcated Governmentality --
_tPart II. Contentious Politics in Crisis --
_t4. The Concerned Women Protests --
_t5. Refugee Dissent as a Social Problem --
_t6. Legitimacy in Repression’s Aftermath --
_tConclusion --
_tMethodological Appendix --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aHumanitarian assistance
_zGhana.
650 0 _aRefugee camps
_zGhana.
650 0 _aRefugees
_xPolitical activity
_zGhana.
650 0 _aRefugees
_zLiberia.
650 4 _aAfrican Hist & Diaspora.
650 4 _aSociology & Social Science.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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653 _arefugees, refugee crisis, Ghana, Buduburam Refugee Camp, refugee activism, Liberian civil war, civic engagement, transnational government, administrative caregiving, political legitimacy, contentious politics, repression, humanitarian aid, humanitarian politics, humanitarian intervention.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501701214
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501701214
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