Refugees and Communitees of Care in Dar es Salaam

This research focuses on the complex and often tense relationships between individual refugees and the legal and humanitarian apparatuses put in place to serve them. Amelia focuses on communities of urban refugees living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, most of whom lack official refugee status. She investigates how individual refugees and refugee communities build and maintain agency and connectivity in ways that challenge the discursive, legal, and spatial boundaries set by refugee and humanitarian institutions. Her research aims to expose nuanced experiences of displacement and to bring this critical, theoretical perspective into closer dialogue with the applied work of humanitarians and policy-makers.