Occupied Refuge

Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya

Hanno Brankamp (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2026
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2967-0 (ISBN)

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In a world shaped by war, climate disaster, and displacement, refugee camps are imagined as indispensable safe havens for millions of people fleeing crises. In Occupied Refuge, Hanno Brankamp challenges the presumed innocence of refugee humanitarianism as a system of civilian protection that can manage global inequalities and forced migration by peaceful means. He shows that although humanitarian missions aim to protect displaced populations in the global South, they often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as new colonized subjects. Through ethnographic research in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp, Brankamp demonstrates how aid operations rely on a combination of infrastructural expansion, militarized policing, ethno-racial subjugation, indirect rule, and economic extraction. By co-managing these camps with international aid agencies, the Kenyan state becomes not only a willing accomplice in planetary humanitarian containment but seeks to pacify its own peripheral territories, securitize unwanted migrants, and impose national rule. Illuminating how refugee camps serve as key sites where carceral protectionism, postcolonial nation-building, and global mobility control intersect, Brankamp calls for abolitionist futures beyond the violent structures of encampment, borders, and citizenship.

Hanno Brankamp is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Refuge 37
2. Occupation 69
3. Dis/Order 101
4. Community 129
5. Extraction 159
Conclusion 183
Notes 197
Bibliography 221
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.2.2026
Reihe/Serie	Global Insecurities
Zusatzinfo	17 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-2967-6 / 1478029676
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2967-0 / 9781478029670
Zustand	Neuware