John Kerry goes to Kenya: behind the closing threats from Dadaab refugee camps

Abstract

The world’s largest complex of refugee camps located in Dadaab, province of Garissa, Kenya suffered new threats of abrupt closure by the Kenyan government in April 2015. Seeking to highlight the importance of developing studies on refugee camps also in Latin America, where, although this policy has not been established, its borders receive greater migration flows with the increasing curtailment of central states to peripheral mobility, this paper analyses issues underlying such threats based on a brief history of the international community acting in these camps up to the analysis of Kenya’s bilateral relations with the United States from a historical perspective and in this particular case. Finally, possibilities will be presented to cease operations in the fields in accordance with International Humanitarian Law