Réflexions basées sur et autour de la forme-camp

Today approximately 230 000 Darfur refugees live across the border in and outside of 12 official UNHCR camps in Eastern Chad. By shading light on a number of actors involved in this crisis and by describing their money flows this paper tries to underpin that crisis affected populations do have to be actors of their own projects and ought to be perceived as victims at the same time. A comparative analysis of certain beliefs and a number of desires related to humanitarian aid actors in three camp-form settings (Courau 2005) in Yemen, Algeria and Chad will show that the shape, form and size of assistance provided via camp settings mainly materializes the desire of relief sector employees to control aid recipients.