01542nam a22001457a 4500 528792 528792 250120b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Earle, Lucy 50141 The right to the city for urban refugees? Living in the shadow of the camp in Nairobi, Amman and Addis Ababa Environment & Urbanization 36(2), Oct, 2024: p.249-267 This paper investigates the multiple ways in which the lives of urban refugees are impacted by the presence of refugee camps. It builds on a growing body of literature on the urban refugee experience that recognizes the agency exercised in the rejection of the camp. But it also demonstrates how, in countries with an encampment policy, the presence of camps can limit urban refugees’ mobility and their ability to take advantage of all that urban life has to offer. It also highlights the consequences of the choice refugees must make between receiving humanitarian aid in a camp and living unassisted in an urban area. The paper draws on qualitative interviews with refugees in Ethiopia, Kenya and Jordan. It presents conclusions on the inadequacy of the international response, which fails to capitalize on the presence of displaced people in cities, to achieve the supposed policy goal of “self-reliance”.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09562478241277077 Forced Displacement, Mobility, Refuges campus, Right to the city, Urban refuges. 50142 Environment & Urbanization AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 403885 IIPA IIPA 2025-01-20 36(2), Oct, 2024: p.249-267 AR134985 2025-01-20 AR