TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dunn,Elizabeth C.
TI  - No path home: humanitarian camps and the grief of displacement 
SN  - 9781501709661
AV  - HV640.4.G28 D86 2017
U1  - 362.87/83094758 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Internally displaced persons
KW  - Georgia (Republic)
KW  - Refugee camps
KW  - Humanitarian assistance
KW  - South Ossetia War, 2008
KW  - Refugees
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The camp and the camp -- War -- Intertext 1: Normal situation -- Chaos -- Nothing -- Intertext 2: Void -- Pressure -- The devil and the authoritarian state -- Intertext 3: The state and the state -- Death -- Intertext 4: Bright objects -- All that remains
N2  - "For more than 60 million displaced people around the world, humanitarian aid has become a chronic condition. No Path Home describes its symptoms in detail. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn shows how war creates a deeply damaged world in which the structures that allow people to occupy social roles, constitute economic value, preserve bodily integrity, and engage in meaningful daily practice have been blown apart. After the Georgian war with Russia in 2008, Dunn spent sixteen months immersed in the everyday lives of the 28,000 people placed in thirty-six resettlement camps by official and nongovernmental organizations acting in concert with the Georgian government. She reached the conclusion that the humanitarian condition poses a survival problem that is not only biological but also existential. In No Path Home, she paints a moving picture of the ways in which humanitarianism leaves displaced people in limbo, neither in a state of emergency nor able to act as normal citizens in the country where they reside"--
ER  -