TY - JOUR AU - Hyndman, Jennifer PY - 1997/06/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Refugee Self-Management and the Question of Governance JF - Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees JA - Refuge VL - 16 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.25071/1920-7336.21915 UR - https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/21915 SP - 16-22 AB - The author considers the organizationof refugee camps as "communities" or"institutions" and takes the positionthat refugee camps are too institutionalin character to establish or maintaintraditional community-based supports.The implications that such definitionshold for camp governance and for thesituation of refugee women, in particular,are discussed and the problematicsfor refugee self-governance are focusedon the complex organizational boundariesdrawn between UNHCR, NGOsand the camp refugees. A genderedframework is pivotal to the analyses. ER -