ABSTRACT
The vast majority of the world’s refugees live in long-term exile, without permanent legal status, or a place to call home. Once refugees are ‘saved’ from hunger, violence, and death, an assumption is often made that the humanitarian crisis is over and human precarity ends. For most refugees, however, precarious situations define their lives. This chapter takes a critical approach to ‘protracted refugee situations’ and offers alternate language and framings of it. The experience of Somalian refugees in Kenya is presented to illustrate the major challenges that remain in addressing protracted displacement.
