What Space Means to Us

July 22nd 2022
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Space in Kakuma is not something static and neutral, it’s a fluid process

People are sometimes in the camp, sometimes in the city and sometimes in South Sudan, Uganda or the Democratic Republic of Congo, where they relate in different ways to aid, the economy and any opportunity they can get.

Kakuma camp has simultaneously moved from an essentially violent and abusive place, to an emergent social form that is something much more in between and ambiguous, now almost permanent but with an enduring sense of uncertainty.