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Forced Migration eBook Series

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  • Politics of Innocence

    Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life

    by Simon Turner ...
    Series Book 30 - Forced Migration
    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 ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Politics of Innocence

    Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life

    by Simon Turner ...
    Series Book 30 - Forced Migration
    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 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • A Certain Amount of Madness

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  • Africa in International Politics

    External Involvement on the Continent

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  • Africa and the North

    Between Globalization and Marginalization

    Edited by Ulf Engel, Gorm Rye Olsen ...
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  • We Need to Talk About Africa

    The harm we have done, and how we should help

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    If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible?Decades after the colonial powers withdrew Africa is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists withdrew from Asia there followed several decades of sustained and unprecedented growth throughout the continent. So ... Read more

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  • I Say to You

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  • Kenya

    The Struggle for Democracy

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    Autochthony, Citizenship and Conflict

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    Democracy, Voting and Virtue

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