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Cory Rodgers
DPhil
Cory Rodgers is an anthropologist exploring the influence of humanitarian and development policies on communal identity and inter-group relations. His current research in Kenya and Lebanon looks at humanitarian strategies to promote social cohesion between refugees and local communities living in contexts of protracted displacement. Since 2015, he has worked primarily in Turkana County in northwestern Kenya, the site of the decades-old Kakuma refugee camp, where he has documented the politicisation of a ‘host community’ identity among Kenyans living in the vicinity of the camp. His doctoral project was an ethnography of the ways that urban development in Turkana have given rise to intra-ethnic schisms between the growing town-based populations and the rural majority of mobile pastoralists
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Inclusive Development, Local Integration, Camps and Settlements, Pastoralism
Recent publications
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Refugee Debt and Livelihoods in Northern Kenya
Report
Vittorio Bruni et al, (2024)
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Social cohesion or social coercion? How policies to improve refugee–host relations can go astray
Other
Caitlin Sturridge and Cory Rodgers, (2023)
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The freedom to choose: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence on cash transfer restrictions
Journal article
Jade Siu et al, (2022), Journal of Development Economics
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From coexistence to cohesion in refugee-host relations
Forced Migration Review
Cory Rodgers, (2022), Forced Migration Review, 70, 64 - 66
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Equipped to Adapt? A Review of Climate Hazards and Pastoralists’ Responses in the IGAD Region
Report
Cory Rodgers, (2022)