Refugee Camp

Maja Janmyr and Nora Milch

Chapter 76 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, 2025, pp 446-449 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: While there is no single agreed-upon definition in international law about what constitutes a refugee camp, the camp setting brings forth an array of legal, political, and bureaucratic implications for refugee protection. Containment can be seen as the core function of the refugee camp, and the defining characteristic of it is some degree of limitation on the rights and freedoms of refugees. Refugee camps typically operate with restrictions in freedom of movement. Despite the growing consensus about the undesirability of refugee camps, policies of containment continue to structure responses to refugee influxes. New camp-like settings aimed at restricting refugee mobility also increasingly blur the distinction between encampment and incarceration.

Keywords: Refugee camp; Encampment; Containment; Freedom of movement; Detention; Urban refugees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802204148
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