No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement

She is the author of Privatizing Poland, also from Cornell.. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn is Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs at Indiana University–Bloomington

She is the author of Privatizing Poland, also from Cornell.. About the AuthorElizabeth Cullen Dunn is Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs at Indiana University–Bloomington

She reached the conclusion that the humanitarian condition poses a survival problem that is not only biological but also existential. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn shows how war creates a deeply damaged world in which the structures that allow people to occupy social roles, constitute economic value, preserve bodily integrity, and engage in meaningful daily practice have been blown apart.After the Georgian war with Russia in 2008, Dunn spent sixteen months immersed in the everyday lives of the 28,000 people placed in thirty-six resettlement camps by official and nongovernmental organizations acting in concert with the Georgian government. In No Path Home, she paints a moving picture of the ways in which humanitarianism leaves displaced people in limbo, neither in a state of emergency nor able to act as normal citizens in the country where they reside.. For more than 60 million displaced people around the world, humanitarian aid has become a chronic conditio