Abstract
A popular conception of a refugee camp is that it is impermanent; established as an immediate response to a crisis of some kind, and providing a temporary haven of relief and recovery before long-term solutions can be found. By contrast, the refugee camps of Southeast Asia were often described by people who work in them as institutions. ‘Institutionalisation’ is defined according to the explanation of the staff; that is, the processs whereby an organisation has become overly bureaucratic and inflexible, dealing in numbers rather than people and unable to respond to crises in any immediate and personal way.
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Interview with the staff at the British Embassy in Bangkok. October 1986. This statement refers to the rules laid down in ‘Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules’, ( London: HMSO, 1983 ).
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Hitchcox, L. (1990). The Camp as a Resettlement Institution. In: Vietnamese Refugees in Southeast Asian Camps. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20979-8_6
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