Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp
Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda

Offering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan refugee camp.

Ulrike Krause (Author)

9781108821605, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 March 2023

316 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.462 kg

'… a well documented and meaningful work related to subjects like gender-based violence, gender roles and relations, humanitarian aid as well as strategies of displaced women and men … The message that the work transmits is a lucid, sympathetic and painful one.' Carmen Ungur-Brehoi, Journal of Identity and Migration Studies

Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains difficult there. Building on empirical research with refugees in a Ugandan camp, Ulrike Krause offers nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees who mainly escaped the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This book explores how risks of gender-based violence against women, in particular, but also against men, persist despite and partly due to their settlement in the camp and the system established there. It reflects on modes and shortcomings of humanitarian protection, changes in gender relations, as well as strategies that the women and men use to cope with insecurities, everyday struggles, and structural problems occurring across different levels and temporalities.

1. Introduction
2. Gender-Based Violence in the Camp and Beyond
3. Humanitarian Aid and the Camp Landscape
4. Changing Gender Relations in the Camp
5. Coping during and with the Difficult Life in the Refugee Camp
6. Conclusions.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP], African history [HBJH], Regional & national history [HBJ], Humanities [H]