04096nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-54501-6 DE-He213 20251030112015.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240427s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031545016 978-3-031-54501-6 10.1007/978-3-031-54501-6 doi JV6001-9480 HB1951-2577 JFFN bicssc SOC007000 bisacsh JBFH thema RGCG thema Opi, Bosco. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75890 Refugee Coloniality [electronic resource] : An Afrocentric analysis of prolonged encampment in Kenya / by Bosco Opi. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. VIII, 227 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. My refugee story -- 2. Decolonial theories of the camp -- 3. The colonial origins of encampment in Kenya -- 4. Critique of the UNHCR -- 5. The securitisation of African borders -- 6. A borderless Africa. This book presents a decolonial and Afrocentric critique of prolonged encampment of refugees, centred on the case study of refugee camps in Kenya, introduced through the author’s decades-long experience of forced displacement. His positionality as a former refugee contributes to a wider discussion on representation, voice, and power within the refugee studies literature. Likewise, the revisiting of the refugee camp as site and tool of power from a colonial perspective, is an important and timely contribution to the literature. This book examines the camp as a colonial innovation and the enduring colonial logics of supposedly ‘humanitarian’ extended encampment. Drawing on the anti-colonial theorists such as Fanon, Mbembe, and Nyerere, etc, it argues for an Africa without borders or encampment. The study is interdisciplinary, encompassing forced migration/refugee studies, camp studies, decolonial studies, and African studies. More broadly, it seeks to contribute to the literature on the politics of asylum in Africa through a critical examination of the colonial origins and the practice of encampment in Kenya. Bosco Opi currently works for the University of South Australia in the Research Office. Prior to that, Bosco worked as Senior Policy Officer with the Australian Department of Home Affairs (2010-2019). His responsibilities encompassed a continuum of policy, legislative, and technical advice relating to Australia’s border protection. Prior to that, he worked for Flinders University of South Australia and tutored in refugee law and human rights law. Bosco holds a PhD in Migration and Refugee Law from Flinders University, faculty of Business, Government, and Law (2021). His PhD thesis provides a decolonial critique of ‘prolonged’ refugee encampment in Kenya and Africa by extension. He is a decolonial scholar and the author of ‘Borders recolonised – the impacts of the EU externalisation policy in Africa’ (2021) published in the Journal of Decolonial Discipline. Emigration and immigration. 58113 Emigration and immigration Social aspects. Human rights. 58427 Human Migration. 67323 Sociology of Migration. Human Rights. 58427 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031545009 Printed edition: 9783031545023 Printed edition: 9783031545030 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54501-6 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 59445 59445