The place of refugee camps in anthropological consideration
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https://doi.org/10.3989/dra.2021.027Keywords:
Refugees, Camps, Non-Places, Europe, Cultural AppropiationAbstract
In his renowned book entitled “Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity”, the French anthropologist Marc Augé defines refugee camps as Non-places (Augé 1995 [1992]). Without prejudice to the legitimacy of such conceptual category in the definition of different spaces peculiar to the “supermodernity”, we will analyse the applicability of such conceptual category to refugee camps, on the basis of our empirical research in the existing camps in several European countries. Our conclusions reject this theoretical approach. At a singular moment in history, the so called «European refugee crisis», it is necessary to reflect upon the interpretation of these spaces from a cultural anthropological perspective.
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