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Feb 10, 2017 · Refugees and the Turkana of Kakuma tend to share a view about one other as the violent “other”; as difficult, greedy, and irrational people with unreasonable demands for goods and resources to which they are not entitled; and not particularly sensitive to women and children.
Nov 25, 2021 · Kakuma camp, however, has become known as a ‘resettlement hub’ and, as I show in this post, the lives of residents are affected by such perceptions. I discuss how refugees move from the hope of surviving to a new, dream-like lifestyle which the term “hopehood” encapsulates.
May 1, 2003 · The article discusses areas of conflict between refugees and their hosts and how these factors endanger refugees’ physical protection, and it echoes the hosts’ solutions to the conflicts. The failure of local integration is attributed to poor refugee-host relations.
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Oct 8, 2003 · Kakuma camp in Kenya is one of the oldest and largest refugee camps in the world. The inhabitants of the camp suffer from poor relations with the local population, a near total lack of economic...
Kakuma refugee camp is adjacent to the town of Kakuma, inside Turkana County, close to the border with South Sudan, in the northwest corner of Kenya. Kenya’s second-largest county, Turkana County is home to the Turkana, an ethnic group facing signifi-cant economic and livelihood challenges.
Refugee Impacts on Turkana Hosts A Social Impact Analysis for Kakuma Town and Refugee Camp Turkana County, Kenya Varalakshmi Vemuru, Rahul Oka, Rieti Gengo, and Lee Gettler
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Kakuma Socioeconomic Assessment, which will be followed by the urban refugees’ Socioeconomic Assessment. A comparative report presenting the consolidated results for all three populations (ref-ugees in Kalobeyei settlement, Kakuma camp, and urban areas) will be jointly prepared and released by the World Bank and UNHCR.
