The Concerned Women of Buduburam : : Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas /

The Concerned Women of Buduburam : : Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas / / Elizabeth Holzer.

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In The Concerned Women of Buduburam, Elizabeth Holzer offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the rise and fall of social protests in a long-standing refugee camp. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the host government of Ghana established the Buduburam Refugee Camp in 1990 to pr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Holzer, Elizabeth,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 1 halftone, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Everyday Politics in Crisis
  • 1. Achieving Everyday Life in Humanitarian Crisis
  • 2. Civic Engagement in the Refugee Camp
  • 3. Bifurcated Governmentality
  • Part II. Contentious Politics in Crisis
  • 4. The Concerned Women Protests
  • 5. Refugee Dissent as a Social Problem
  • 6. Legitimacy in Repression’s Aftermath
  • Conclusion
  • Methodological Appendix
  • References
  • Index

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