Angry young men in camps: gender, age and class relations among Burundian refugees in Tanzania

Focuses on how the relief operation’s policy of equality challenges older hierarchies of authority. Through an analysis of refugees’ representations of gender relations, relations between generations, and relations between peasants and ‘big men’, it is shown that there is a general feeling of social decay in the camp. In this situation young men are particularly challenged, as they are at a stage in life where they ought to be finding their place in society as fathers, husbands, protectors and providers; in short: as men.

Also shows that many of the young, adult men use the opportunity to find other ways to survive, both materially and in terms of identity creation. [author]