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Wen schützen Flüchtlingslager? "Care and Control" im jordanischen Lager Azraq
Who do refugee camps protect? An analysis of "care and control" in Azraq Camp, Jordan
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Abstract The Middle East has a long history of integrating refugee populations, which today is being transformed by a newly arising large international humanitarian sector. This article considers how humanitarian knowledge and practice is shaping the social environment available to Syrian refugees in Jordan ... view more
The Middle East has a long history of integrating refugee populations, which today is being transformed by a newly arising large international humanitarian sector. This article considers how humanitarian knowledge and practice is shaping the social environment available to Syrian refugees in Jordan via an investigation of the recently opened Azraq refugee camp. Arguing that the concept and form of Azraq can be explained in part by international refugee aid’s political underpinnings of nationalism, the article focuses on the question of humanitarianism’s security logic. Azraq’s order is shaped by three security concerns: the security of the refugees, the security of the Jordanian state, and the security of the aid workers themselves. At the same time, this order constitutes refugees as vulnerable and as a security risk that needs to be controlled and managed.... view less
Keywords
refugee; Jordan; Middle East; humanitarian aid; emergency shelter; UNHCR; security
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
Flüchtlingslager; refugee camps
Document language
German
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 281-302
Journal
PERIPHERIE - Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, 35 (2015) 2
Issue topic
Dis-Placement: Flüchtlinge zwischen Orten
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v35i138-139.24300
ISSN
2366-4185
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed