Historically, most refugee camps are seen as impermanent camps - TopicsExpress

Historically, most refugee camps are seen as impermanent camps whose desperate, wretched populations need “service delivery” of all sorts. The “professionals” must orchestrate and administer everything. The role assigned to the sad, needy hordes of refugees is to queue up in lines for food and to idle away their hours and days. (...) But what if you conceive a refugee camp not as an impermanent waystation (which often endures for years) to be “administered” from the top down, but as a project in self-organized, participatory, bottom-up city-building?