The plight of urban refugees in Nairobi, Kenya

Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 91-102

  Wagacha, John Burton ^a   Guiney, John ^b  

^a International Office for Migration in Kenya   (Kenya)

^b Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)   (United States)

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References (23)

1. For testimonies and reports of various protection problems, see Human Rights Watch, Hidden in Plain View: Refugees Living without Protection in Nairobi and Kampala (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2002). Also available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/kenyugan/kenyugan.pdf (accessed April 16, 2007).
2. UNHCR, Information Bulletin: Kenya Refugee Emergency (Nairobi, Kenya: UNHCR, July and November 1992).
3. Patricia Daley, "Situation of Refugees in East Africa", paper for the Fourth International Research Advisory Panel Conference, Oxford, 1995;
4. Human Rights Watch, Kenya: Taking Liberties, an Africa Watch Report (London: Human Rights Watch, 1991).
5. United Nations, Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal: Kenya, Special Emergency Program for the Horn of Africa (SEPHA) (Geneva, 1993).
6. Duncan Ndegwa, Walking in Kenyatta Struggles: My Story (Nairobi: Kenya Leadership Institute, 2006).
7. United States Committee for Refugees, World Refugee Survey (Washington, DC, 1993).
8. Barbara Harrell-Bond, "Are Refugee Camps Good for Children?" Journal of Humanitarian Studies, New Issues in Refugee Research, Working Paper No. 29, August 2000, available from http://www.jha.ac/articles/u029.htm.
9. Human Rights Watch, Hidden in Plain View, 27-28.
10. Louis Pirouet, "Refugees in and from Uganda in the Post Colonial Period", in Uganda Now, ed. Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle (Nairobi, Kenya: Heinemann East African Studies, 1988).
11. Cindy Hosrt, Transnational Nomads: How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2006), 141.
12. Mapendo International, "Un-Met Needs of Urban Refugees in Nairobi", Nairobi, Kenya, unpublished report of Mapendo International, 2005.
13. Human Rights Watch, Hidden in Plain View.
14. Refugee Consortium of Kenya, "Self-Settled Refugees in Nairobi: A Close Look at Urban Refugees Coping Strategies", (Nairobi: Refugee Consortium of Kenya, 2005). The report is also available at http://www.rckkenya. org/research.html, under link for Urban Refugees in Nairobi (accessed April 19, 2007).
15. Human Rights Watch, Hidden in Plain View, 27.
16. "Participatory Assessment: Age, Gender, and Diversity Mainstreaming", Nairobi, Kenya, unpublished report of assessment exercise carried out among Nairobi refugees by UNHCR and Nairobi-based NGOs, 2005, 9.
17. Human Rights Watch, Hidden in Plain View, 36 ff.
18. "Participatory Assessment", 14.
19. John Wagacha Burton, "Socio-Economic Factors that Militate against Tuberculosis Control among the Somali Community in Eastleigh Section of Nairobi, Kenya" (master's thesis, University of Nairobi, 2006).
20. Human Rights Watch, Hidden in Plain View, 32-34.
21. "Participatory Assessment", 14.
22. Refugee Consortium of Kenya, "Self-Settled Refugees in Nairobi", 36.
23. UNHCR, Helping Refugees: An Introduction to UNHCR (Geneva: UNHCR, 2003).