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Chapter 6 turns to the camp’s material fabric, and explores people’s handling, placing and use of social goods. By concentrating on the aspects of mapping, agriculture, construction, and how the physical experience of refugees differs from the planned physical outlines of the camp will be revealed. Despite structural constraints, thus chapter shows how refugees (re)arrange Kyaka II according to their own needs, e.g. through the repetitive use of goods or the always-same path to walk along, In contrast to a camps’ temporariness, they produce permanent linkages and physically establish the camp, In effect, they produce permanent linkages – in contrast to the camp’s assumed temporariness.
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DR Congo, 3 W, Ntababiniga, EED, 16/06/2017, Kyaka II.
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DR Congo, W, I, A, n.a. EED, 07/12/2016, Kyaka II.
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DR Congo, M, Sweswe, EED, 18/06/2017, Kyaka II.
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For access see: https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/66117.
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A casual remark made while we shared a lift to the nearest town.
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See also analysis about the social negotitations revolving around an item like that in (Mac Ginty 2017).
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All quotes from DR Congo, M, R, Kaberogota, 15/06/2017, Kyaka II.
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For example: R, M, Sweswe, EED, 15/06/2017, Kyaka II; DR Congo, M, B, Byabakora EED, 19/11/2016, Kyaka II; FGD, MN, 5M, 1 W, Base Camp, 21/06/2017, Kyaka II.
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U, EI, OPM, Base Camp, 18/11/2017, Kyaka II.
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This was particularly claimed by participants in one transect walk 08/07/2017.
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DR Congo, M, B, Sweswe, EED, 15/06/2017, Kyaka II. Others described selling plastic sheeting: B, M, Sweswe, EED, 07/12/2016, Kyaka II; DR Congo, 2 W, Byabakora, EED, 08/12/2016, Kyaka II.
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DR Congo, 3 W, 2M, EED, reception centre, 06/12/2016, Kyaka II.
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Conversation with a Congolese male during the transect walk on 08/07/2017.
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U, EI, OPM, Base Camp, 18/11/2017, Kyaka II.
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DR Congo, 3 W, 2M, EED, reception centre, 06/12/2016, Kyaka II.
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DR Congo, M, B, Sweswe, EED, 15/06/2017, Kyaka II.
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U, EI, OPM, Base Camp, 10/07/2017, Kyaka II.
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FGD, MN, 10 W, Bukere,16/11/2016, Kyaka II.
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Interlocutors during a transect walk on 08/07/2017.
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B, M, Sweswe, EED, 07/12/2016, Kyaka II.
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Interaction during a transect walk on 08/07/2017, Mukondo.
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Interaction during a transect walk on 08/07/2017, Mukondo.
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Schmidt, H. (2023). Material Fabric: Refugees’ Material Practices of Spatialization in Kyaka II. In: Weaving the Camp. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41650-8_6
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