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Emily Lynch is assistant professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. Her research focuses on forced migration, violence and the humanitarian apparatus that serves those affected by conflict, particularly Congolese refugees living in camps in Rwanda.
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In the second part of her story on hunger among Congolese refugees in Rwanda, anthropologist Emily Lynch discusses an initiative to replace insufficient, poor-quality food rations with cash aid, and why refugees say it hasn’t helped.
Congolese refugees in Rwanda’s Gihembe camp have complained for years that U.N. food rations are making them sick. Emily Lynch, an anthropologist at Marquette University, describes how the refugees cope with hunger and sickness in the first of a two-part story.
While mainstream media shapes our perceptions of the current refugee flows as a “crisis,” anthropologist Emily Lynch urges more nuance, thought and imagination when discussing forced migration.
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