ABSTRACT
Pain and suffering are not simply individual experience, which arise out of the contingency of life. These may also be experiences, which are actively created and distributed by the social order itself (Das, 1994). This chapter narrates the linkages between the social order and the basis of individual misery and pain, and the chapter is divided into two parts. The first part of this chapter deals with the case study of a woman who was caught in the refugee saga. Gender specific life experiences of the refugees’ gives a detailed insight into the social process of refugee production and the pathways through which pain and misery are contrived as an extension of the social structure itself. The 2nd section of this chapter deals with the physical structure, organisation of the camps and the process of legitimising the detention of refugees.
