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Ambiguities of space and control: when refugee camp and nomadic encampment meet

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:58 authored by Alice WilsonAlice Wilson
This article explores sedentarisation as a process of inherent tension between the rupture and preservation of values associated with mobility. This tension is compelling when mobile pastoralists settle in refugee camps. Refugee camps may resemble nomadic encampments in material infrastructure and (alleged) non-permanence. Yet refugee camps contrast with nomadic encampments in facilitating control and evoking, through its disruption, rootedness. In the case of refugees of mobile pastoralist heritage from the disputed territory of Western Sahara, the tension in the meeting of nomadic encampment and refugee camps sees the nomadic encampment reproduced and transformed in the refugee camp. This creates ambiguities of space and control.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Nomadic Peoples

ISSN

0822-7942

Publisher

Berghahn Journals

Issue

1

Volume

18

Page range

38-60

Department affiliated with

  • Anthropology Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-09-20

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-09-20

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-09-20

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