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Rahul Chandrashekhar Oka

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ID3616153
NAMERahul Chandrashekhar Oka
GIVEN NAMESRahul Chandrashekhar
FAMILY NAMEOka
SIGNATUREOKA R C
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Anthropology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS1
TOTAL CITATIONS44
WORKS AS AUTHOR1
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1
  • Coping with the Refugee Wait

    Open Access•Rahul Oka, Rahul Chandrashekhar Oka•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2014•Cited by: 44•References: 23

    The relief discourse has long treated refugee camp economies and the resulting black markets and commercial consumption as detrimental for the relief process and the refugees. The consumption of "luxuries and comforts" is regarded as costly, trivial, unreasonable, and nonessential. However, despite the negative effects and the high costs of consumption, refugees make strenuous efforts to participate in these commercial economies. I analyze refuge…

  • Coping with the Refugee Wait

    Open Access•Rahul Oka, Rahul Chandrashekhar Oka•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2014•Cited by: 44•References: 23

    The relief discourse has long treated refugee camp economies and the resulting black markets and commercial consumption as detrimental for the relief process and the refugees. The consumption of "luxuries and comforts" is regarded as costly, trivial, unreasonable, and nonessential. However, despite the negative effects and the high costs of consumption, refugees make strenuous efforts to participate in these commercial economies. I analyze refuge…

  • Coping with the Refugee Wait

    Open Access•Rahul Oka, Rahul Chandrashekhar Oka•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2014•Cited by: 44•References: 23

    The relief discourse has long treated refugee camp economies and the resulting black markets and commercial consumption as detrimental for the relief process and the refugees. The consumption of "luxuries and comforts" is regarded as costly, trivial, unreasonable, and nonessential. However, despite the negative effects and the high costs of consumption, refugees make strenuous efforts to participate in these commercial economies. I analyze refuge…

Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 work) · Consumption (sociology (1 work) · Coping (psychology (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Dignity (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Medicine (1 work) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (1 work) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (1 work)

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