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A new book on internal and international displacement
Abstract
In May 2022, an exam copy of Ulrike Krause’s book Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda was received after an initial hesitation from Cambridge University Press. Their concern was that a request for an exam copy is subject to an instructor teaching a course wherein students taking their course will guarantee purchase of the book and hence an accumulation of capital and extraction of profit on author’s intellectual property. I first heard about Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp prior to requesting an examination copy from Cambridge University Press. From 2021-2022 Professor Ulrike Krause and I served on the executive committee of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration – an international organisation that brings together academics, practitioners and decision-makers working on forced migration issues
