The Medical History of the Refugee Camp (360G-Wellcome-203381_Z_16_Z)

£83,593

Last year, the number of refugees in our world passed the 20 million threshold for the first time since 1992 (UNHCR, 2015). The UN refugee agency may have adopted a policy of seeking alternatives to camps, but refugee camps have been the dominant model of managing refugee crises for a century. My proposed research offers a historiographical analysis of the medicalization of refugee camps. The research will investigate how refugee camps have developed as sites of professionalised medical interventions. It will analyse how camps have developed as sites of medical risk for those inhabiting them. It will investigate if refugee camps have become sites for managing risks to others; have camps developed as sites of disease control, for the benefit of host communities and the global community? The research will draw from archival documents to investigate the strategy and role of international bodies (NGOs and the UNHCR) in the medicalisation of refugee camps. The research goals are (i) to complete a challenging contribution to the body of knowledge (ii) to strengthen a multi-disciplinary field of study in medicine and the humanities (iii) to open-up avenues for new research also of value to policy-makers and strategic decision-makers in contemporary scenarios.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 83593
Applicant Surname Carr
Approval Committee ERG10 Medical Humanities, Early Career Awards
Award Date 2016-05-10T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2015/16
Grant Programme: Title PhD Studentship in H&SS
Internal ID 203381/Z/16/Z
Lead Applicant Ms Jennifer Carr
Partnership Value 83593
Planned Dates: End Date 2020-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2017-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Scotland
Sponsor(s) Prof Lynn Abrams