scholarly journals You-Will-Kill-Me-Beans: Taste and the Politics of Necessity in Humanitarian Aid

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 412-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micah M. Trapp
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
Public Accounting ◽  
Cooking Skills ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Critical Responses ◽  
Buduburam Refugee Camp

Despite their nuanced palates and cooking skills, as guests at the humanitarian table, Liberians living at the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana were expected and assumed to adapt to the “tastes of necessity.” In the refugee camp, the sensory experiences and pleasures of the taste of liberty—or “luxury”—existed, if at all, as an indicator that one was no longer in need of aid. In this article, I consider how innovations in cooking and taste shape humanitarian politics and argue that Liberian refugees subverted the biopolitics of necessity through biographies of taste. Through their sensuous encounters and critical responses to the taste of necessity, humanitarian subjects are able to produce biographies of food aid and a public accounting of the historic and contemporary conditions of humanitarianism. By prioritizing the taste of refugee food, camp residents have challenged the reason of humanitarian reason by expanding the sensibility of food aid and repositioning recipients as essential figures in humanitarian aid.

scholarly journals Maize meal fortification is associated with improved vitamin A and iron status in adolescents and reduced childhood anaemia in a food aid-dependent refugee population

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 720-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Seal ◽  
Emmanuel Kafwembe ◽  
Ismail AR Kassim ◽  
Mei Hong ◽  
Annie Wesley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin A ◽  
Vitamin A Deficiency ◽  
Iron Status ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
Serum Retinol ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Vitamin A Status ◽  
Maize Meal

AbstractObjectiveTo assess changes in the Fe and vitamin A status of the population of Nangweshi refugee camp associated with the introduction of maize meal fortification.DesignPre- and post-intervention study using a longitudinal cohort.SettingNangweshi refugee camp, Zambia.SubjectsTwo hundred and twelve adolescents (10–19 years), 157 children (6–59 months) and 118 women (20–49 years) were selected at random by household survey in July 2003 and followed up after 12 months.ResultsMaize grain was milled and fortified in two custom-designed mills installed at a central location in the camp and a daily ration of 400 g per person was distributed twice monthly to households as part of the routine food aid ration. During the intervention period mean Hb increased in children (0·87 g/dl;P< 0·001) and adolescents (0·24 g/dl;P= 0·043) but did not increase in women. Anaemia decreased in children by 23·4 % (P< 0·001) but there was no significant change in adolescents or women. Serum transferrin receptor (log10-transformed) decreased by −0·082 μg/ml (P= 0·036) indicating an improvement in the Fe status of adolescents but there was no significant decrease in the prevalence of deficiency (−8·5 %;P= 0·079). In adolescents, serum retinol increased by 0·16 μmol/l (P< 0·001) and vitamin A deficiency decreased by 26·1 % (P< 0·001).ConclusionsThe introduction of fortified maize meal led to a decrease in anaemia in children and a decrease in vitamin A deficiency in adolescents. Centralised, camp-level milling and fortification of maize meal is a feasible and pertinent intervention in food aid operations.

Foundation News

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 536-537
Author(s):  
Paul Bauman
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
Sudan I ◽  
The World ◽  
Dave Eggers ◽  
Lost Boys

The Kakuma Refugee Camp (including the nearby Kalobeyei Camp) in the Turkana Desert of northwestern Kenya is home to approximately 200,000 refugees from 21 countries. The camp was established in 1992 to accommodate approximately 40,000 “Lost Boys” who walked there from their villages in Sudan. I have heard many experienced humanitarian aid workers describe Kakuma as the worst place in the world. In Dave Eggers book, What is the What, Lost Boy Achak Deng, after surviving for years as a child wandering across deserts and swamps in Sudan and eventually reaching Kakuma, describes it as “a place in which no one, simply no one but the most desperate, would ever consider spending a day” (Eggers, 2007).

Israeli Defense Forces Medical Corps Humanitarian Mission for Kosovo's Refugees

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Amital ◽  
Michael L Alkan ◽  
Jakov Adler ◽  
Iyzhak Kriess ◽  
Yehezkel Levi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Staff ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Facility ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
Humanitarian Mission ◽  
Israeli Government ◽  
Set Up

AbstractIn April 1999, during the crisis in Kosovo, the Israeli government launched a medical, field hospital in order to provide humanitarian aid to the Albanian refugees that fled from their homes in Kosovo. This facility was set up by the Medical Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces, in a refugee camp located in Northern Macedonia. During the 16 days during which the hospital functioned, the medical staff treated 1,560 patients and hospitalized >100. The field hospital served as a referral center for all of the other primary clinics that were hastily erected in the camp and its surroundings. This communication elaborates on the various aspects of the humanitarian medical aid that were provided by this medical facility and the conclusions that learned from such a mission.

Rethinking multicultural jurisdictions

Ethnicities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 631-654
Author(s):  
Tehila Sagy
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
Buduburam Refugee Camp

This article is about the rights of disempowered individuals within autonomous cultural groups. For more than a decade, multiculturalism theorists have been struggling to find a suitable balance between the policies they advocate and the need to protect the vulnerable members of the groups they seek to empower. One of the most convincing and innovative solutions to emerge has been Ayelet Sachar’s model of transformative accommodations (TA). Yet, the main argument presented in this article (based on an ethnographic study) is that this model is unfeasible due to the rule of conservation of power. This claim is illustrated by two case studies: the case of the Beit Ya’acov Primary School for Girls in Emmanuel in the Israeli Occupied Territories and the case of the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana. The article concludes by suggesting that multiculturalists have yet to produce a satisfying response to what seems to be the principal challenge to the policy they advocate.

scholarly journals Humanitarian Adhocracy, Transnational New Apostolic Missions, and Evangelical Anti-Dependency in a Haitian Refugee Camp

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McAlister
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Haiti Earthquake ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
American Missionaries ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Spiritual Mapping

This article addresses religious responses to disaster by examining how one network of conservative evangelical Christians reacted to the Haiti earthquake and the humanitarian relief that followed. The charismatic Christian New Apostolic Reformation (or Spiritual Mapping movement) is a transnational network that created the conditions for post-earthquake, internally displaced Haitians to arrive at two positions that might seem contradictory. On one hand, Pentecostal Haitian refugees used the movement’s conservative, right-wing theology to develop a punitive theodicy of the quake as God’s punishment of a sinful nation. On the other hand, rather than resign themselves to victimhood and passivity, their strict moralism allowed these evangelical refugees to formulate an uncompromising critique of the Haitian government, the United Nations peacekeeping mission, and foreign humanitarian relief. They rejected material humanitarian aid when possible and developed a stance of Christian self-sufficiency, anti-foreign-aid, and anti-dependency. They accepted visits only from American missionaries with “spiritual,” and not material, missions, and they launched their own missions to parts of Haiti unaffected by the quake.

scholarly journals Nutritional Behavior and Status of Unaccompanied Minor Refugees in the Moria Camp, Lesbos, Greece

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
J. Bydzovsky ◽  
M. Jackulikova ◽  
S. Ousmann ◽  
R. Faashtol
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Drinking Alcohol ◽  
Anthropometric Parameters ◽  
Unaccompanied Children ◽  
Unaccompanied Minor Refugees ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Minor Refugees

Greece faces a migration crisis caused by thousands of refugees coming from the Middle East and Africa to overwhelmed camps that try to fulfill at least their basic needs including diet as a humanitarian aid. The aim of the survey is to determine both the eating habits and possibilities and objective anthropometric parameters to evaluate the nutritional status of unaccompanied children under 18 years of age in the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece. The survey has found that the respondents are completely dependent on the food provided by the camp. 87% of them reported starvation at least once a week, 24% are underweight. The energetic value of the provided food is insufficient as compared to their real needs. We have encountered serious complaints about the catering but have also found that more than half of the respondents state that they would be able to cook for themselves. These minor refugees are also at risk of starting with smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol.

scholarly journals Nipe Nikupe: Dependency, Reciprocity, and Paradoxes of Food Aid in Lugufu
Refugee Camp Kigoma, Tanzania

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-54
Author(s):  
Brian Hoyer
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
Student Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Study Abroad Program

This article presents an undergraduate student research project on dependency, reciprocity, and paradoxes of food aid in Lugufu Refugee Camp conducted on a study abroad program in Kigoma, Tanzania.

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