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Organizing People and Places

其他書名	Humanitarian Discourse and Sierra Leonean Refugees
出版	Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, 2001
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=88IOHAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This paper deals with the concept of refugees both in the discourses of the international humanitarian community as well as among refugees. The paper demonstrates how certain key concepts, like nationalism, ethnicity, space, place and categorical purity become instrumental in understanding how "the refugee" is created both as an analytical category and as symbol of individual identification. The paper challenges the near hegemony of humanitarian discourse in defining what constitutes a refugee. The problem seems to be one of conceptual confusion, where in humanitarian discourse the refugee designates a category while among refugees it constitutes the basis for group identity. The substances of the paper is based on anthroplogical fieldwork among Sierra Leonean refugees in a refugee camp in Guinea. (Adapted from the publisher's abstract).