Kakuma Refugee Camp: Humanitarian Urbanism in Kenya's Accidental City

by Bram Jansen

Book Overview

Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world's largest, home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa. Though notionally still a 'temporary' camp, it has become a permanent urban space in all but name with businesses, schools, a hospital and its own court system. Such places, Bram J. Jansen argues, should be recognised as 'accidental cities', a unique form of urbanization that has so far been overlooked by scholars.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786991888
• ISBN13: 9781786991881
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"