Refugee Camps

Social urgency, local resilience and resistance: when humanitarian players get involved in France

Migration, severe poverty, unequal access to basic services, and health and climate crises are breaking down barri­ers between social action and human­itarian work in France, to the extent that international...

Johanna Baché - Véronique de Geoffroy

What future for the Global Compact on Refugees in an international system in crisis? The case study of Niger

International solidarity with refugees is breaking down due to massive budget cuts. In Niger, a Sahelian country host­ing close to 400,000 refugees, American and European funding decisions are jeopardising previously...

Rémy Kalombo

“Villagisation” as a resilience strategy for Central African Republic refugees in southern Chad in response to the international aid crisis

Chad has opted for villagisation as an alternative host model for refugees from the Central African Republic in a context impacted by ongoing forced dis­placement, a camp-based humanitarian model losing...

Julien Ramadji Begoto

Aid interrupted: what Myanmar’s crisis reveals about humanitarian system’s fragility

Published on 13 November 2025 This article is an extension of our special issue “Aid in danger: after the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response” published in November...

Amélie Bernard Beeckman

Sheltering, hosting or receiving refugees: the unresolved ambiguities of the La Linière refugee camp

Frank Esnée and Michaël Neuman invite us here to follow up on previous work. The latter and Angélique Muller already wrote an article about the social and political actors of...

Franck Esnée - Michaël Neuman

MSF in Grande-Synthe: lessons from an unlikely coalition of actors

Vivid symbol of the migratory crisis, the situation of refugee camps in the north of France gives way to many erroneous representations. Angélique Muller and Michaël Neuman bring forward in...

Angélique Muller - Michaël Neuman

The Covid-19 pandemic: a double burden in humanitarian crises

From refugee camps in Kenya or Jordan to countries in conflict such as Yemen or Syria, the expertise of humanitarian actors is key to limiting the spread of the pandemic...

Karl Blanchet

Reunited

Lâm Duc Hiên is a child of the Mekong. Born in Laos in 1966, he had to flee the country in 1975. He then spent two years in refugee camps...

Lebanon: healthcare takes to the road

Photos and captions • © Didier Bizet https://www.didierbizet.com The economic and health crisis in Lebanon is worsening by the day. Though the country is now enjoying fragile peace, the wars...

Didier Bizet

The arbitration required between possibilities of new technologies and usefulness for populations

The resurgence of new technologies requires humanitarian actors to take stock of their possibilities, applicability and interest for populations.

Karine Le Roch   - Caroline Antoine - Jonathan Bureau - Melchior de Roquemaurel - Myriam Ait-Aissa - Nicolas Dennefeld

Refugees wedged between corporate malfunctions and the lack of State involvement: the example of a cash-transfer programme in Cameroon

Cash-transfer programmes are now widespread in humanitarian settings, just as partnerships with companies that promote them. Here is the case of the Gado Badzéré refugee camp in Cameroon. For Pierre...

Pierre Boris N’nde