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Weaving the Camp

Refugees' Practices of Spatialization in a Refugee Camp in Uganda

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  1. Hannah Schmidt

    1. Osnabrueck, Germany

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Hannah Schmidt
    Pages 1-20

  3. Theorizing Socio-Spatial Practices

    • Hannah Schmidt
    Pages 21-54

  4. Research Design

    • Hannah Schmidt
    Pages 55-83

  5. Humanitarian Patterns of the Camp: Order, Spacing and Protraction in Kyaka II

    • Hannah Schmidt
    Pages 85-117

  6. Social Fabric: Refugees’ Social Practices of Spatialization in Kyaka II

    • Hannah Schmidt
    Pages 119-159

  7. Material Fabric: Refugees’ Material Practices of Spatialization in Kyaka II

    • Hannah Schmidt
    Pages 161-194

  8. Pulling the Strings: Refugees’ Rearranging Practices in Kyaka II

    • Hannah Schmidt
    Pages 195-234

  9. Conclusion

    • Hannah Schmidt
    Pages 235-251

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 253-278
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About this book

This book offers a socio-spatial analysis of a refugee camp in southwestern Uganda. Based on qualitative research with a multi-method approach the author shows how refugees are central actors in the operation and becoming of a camp. Not only do they crucially contribute to its social, micro-economic, and material realization but they also incrementally rearrange the camp space by acts of constant adaptation in order to make it work for its inhabitants. By means of social interaction, infrastructuring, translation, movement and material improvisation they navigate daily life in the semi-constricted and highly precarious space of the refugee protection regime and carve out its social and material landscape. Thus, this study challenges static understandings of camps and restricted conditions and puts forward theoretical implications for the rethinking and reassessment of agency in such contexts by calling for closer attention to ordinary practices.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Osnabrueck, Germany

    Hannah Schmidt

About the author

About the author 
Hannah Schmidt is a member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University Osnabrück. Her research is on encampment and refugee regimes in the Global South, as well as social practices, agency and spatial production in the context of humanitarianism.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Weaving the Camp

  • Book Subtitle: Refugees' Practices of Spatialization in a Refugee Camp in Uganda

  • Authors: Hannah Schmidt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41650-8

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Science and Law (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-41649-2Published: 14 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-41650-8Published: 13 July 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 278

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Migration, African Politics, Human Rights

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