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Life in Refugee Camps: The Challenges of Refugees with Disability in Kenya

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The ever-dynamic environments within which our daily lives are run have increasingly presented difficulties in comprehensively understanding human lives and in effectively managing the undesirable situations that we often find ourselves in. More importantly, the rise in calamities, both anthropogenic and natural, has made it increasingly difficult to predict the general flow of life. There has been an increase in the number of refugees globally.

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Shauri, H.S., Bonventure, O.M. (2019). Life in Refugee Camps: The Challenges of Refugees with Disability in Kenya. In: Wacker, E., Becker, U., Crepaz, K. (eds) Refugees and Forced Migrants in Africa and the EU. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24538-2_10

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