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SUMMARY:Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya
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DESCRIPTION:In a world shaped by war\, climate disaster and displacement\,
  refugee camps are imagined as indispensable safe havens for millions of p
 eople fleeing crises. In Occupied Refuge\, Hanno Brankamp challenges the p
 resumed innocence of refugee humanitarianism as a system of civilian prote
 ction that can manage global inequalities and forced migration by peaceful
  means. He shows that although humanitarian missions aim to protect displa
 ced populations in the global South\, they often function as militarized o
 ccupations that treat camp inhabitants as new colonized subjects. Through 
 ethnographic research in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp\, Brankamp demonstr
 ates how aid operations rely on a combination of infrastructural expansion
 \, militarized policing\, ethno-racial subjugation\, indirect rule and eco
 nomic extraction. By co-managing these camps with international aid agenci
 es\, the Kenyan state becomes not only a willing accomplice in planetary h
 umanitarian 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\, postcolon
 ial nation-building\, and global mobility control intersect\, Brankamp cal
 ls for abolitionist futures beyond the violent structures of encampment\, 
 borders and citizenship.\n\nDr Hanno Brankamp is a Lecturer in Critical Gl
 obal Geographies at the University of Glasgow. He is a political and devel
 opment geographer interested in migration\, displacement\, humanitarianism
 \, race\, de/coloniality\, policing\, carcerality and abolitionism. His re
 search has focused primarily on Eastern Africa\, especially Kenya\, where 
 he has conducted long-term ethnographic work.\n\nDr Loren Landau is Profes
 sor of Migration and Development at the University of Oxford. His interdis
 ciplinary scholarship explores mobility\, multi-scale governance\, and the
  transformation of socio-political communities across the Global South.
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LOCATION:African Studies Centre - Seminar Room\, Seminar Room African Stud
 ies Centre 13 Bevington Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6NB United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Hanno Brankamp (Glasgow)\, Loren Landau (QEH)
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