The Alchemy of Exile: Strengthening a Culture of Human Rights in the Burundian Refugee Camps in Tanzania

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This Essay explores the ways in which human rights norms can be internalized and redefined from within a community of refugees, in this case Burundians residing in camps in Western Tanzania. It examines the everyday relevance of international protection principles to a particular group of individuals those norms are intended to serve.

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Emigration & immigration -- Government policy, Refugees -- Tanzania, Burundians, Human rights, Immigration policy, Refugees, United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Burundi, Tanzania, United States

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Jennifer Moore (University of New Mexico School of Law)

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