Heute ist die neue Monographie von Ulrike Krause über „Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp. Violence, Gender, and Coping in Uganda“ bei Cambridge University Press erschienen. Basierend auf Forschung mit primär Geflüchteten aus der Demokratischen Republik Kongo in dem ugandischen Aufnahmelager Kyaka II untersucht Ulrike Krause Gefahren von genderbasierter Gewalt, Strukturen des humanitären Schutzes, Veränderungen in Genderbeziehungen sowie Bewältigungs- und Handlungsstrategien im Lager.

The new monograph by Ulrike Krause on “Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp. Violence, Gender, and Coping in Uganda”, published by Cambridge University Press, is now available. Based on research primarily with refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Ugandan refugee camp Kyaka II, Ulrike Krause examines the risks of gender-based violence, structures of humanitarian protection, changes in gender relations, and coping strategies in the camp.

Krause, Ulrike (2021), Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp. Violence, Gender, and Coping in Uganda (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), Link.

Abstract: Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains difficult there. Building on empirical research with refugees in a Ugandan camp, Ulrike Krause offers nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees who mainly escaped the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This book explores how risks of gender-based violence against women, in particular, but also against men, persist despite and partly due to their settlement in the camp and the system established there. It reflects on modes and shortcomings of humanitarian protection, changes in gender relations, as well as strategies that the women and men use to cope with insecurities, everyday struggles, and structural problems occurring across different levels and temporalities.