How international recognition of cultural practices could be a new way to protect refugees
- Written by: Alice Neikirk, Program Convenor, Criminology, University of Newcastle
More than 6.6 million refugees live in camps located largely in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In these camp communities, unique cultural practices can arise. In our new research, we found the oral histories and healing practices of the Bhutanese refugees in Nepal changed over the decades they spent in camps.
In other words, camps foster new and...
