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Refugee Coloniality : An Afrocentric Analysis of Prolonged Encampment in Kenya

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This book presents a decolonial and Afrocentric critique of prolonged encampment of refugees, centred on the case study of refugee camps in Kenya, introduced through the author's decades-long experience of forced displacement. His positionality as a former refugee contributes to a wider discussion on representation, voice, and power within the refugee studies literature. Likewise, the revisiting of the refugee camp as site and tool of power from a colonial perspective, is an important and timely contribution to the literature. This book examines the camp as a colonial innovation and the enduring colonial logics of supposedly 'humanitarian' extended encampment. Drawing on the anti-colonial theorists such as Fanon, Mbembe, and Nyerere, etc, it argues for an Africa without borders or encampment. The study is interdisciplinary, encompassing forced migration/refugee studies, camp studies, decolonial studies, and African studies. More broadly, it seeks to contribute to the literature on the politics of asylum in Africa through a critical examination of the colonial origins and the practice of encampment in Kenya.

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  • ISBN-13: 9783031545009
  • ISBN-10: 3031545001
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publish Date: April 2024
  • Dimensions: 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.56 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.95 pounds
  • Page Count: 227

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