This article provides a critical examination of the current extensive promotion of 'self-
reliance'for refugees. The existing scholarship largely ignores the unsuccessful historical …

Although not new topics in the field of refugee studies, self-reliance, livelihoods and
entrepreneurship have recently taken on a heightened emphasis. However, critical …

This paper critically examines the 'humanitarian innovation'movement, arguing that it
represents a departure from classical principles and the entry of a distinctive new ideology …

Buzzwords play an important role in setting up the scope and direction of aid policies.
Alongside the growing focus on development-led approaches in the international refugee …

Global policies designed to promote the self-reliance and resilience of refugees strive to
increase their abilities to deal with hardships; in doing so, they rhetorically shift refugees …

In the context of protracted refugee situations, there has been a revival in concern among
policymakers to transcend the so-called humanitarian-development divide and create …

I would like to write the history of this prison, with all the political investments of the body that
it gathers together in its closed architecture. Why? Simply because I am interested in the …

Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing
from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains difficult there. Building on empirical …

It all started with Mzee Asman. We were sitting in the shady courtyard of the old man's house
in the Kijitonyama neighbourhood of Dar es Salaam in 2009. His wife and some young …

In 2016, refugees in the Kakuma camps in Kenya were offered the opportunity to relocate to
the new Kalobeyei settlement, which ostensibly offered a better set of opportunities. While it …