Acknowledgements

I would like to express my warmest thanks to all those who have supported and encouraged this research project, in particular my thesis supervisor, Prof. Gilles Carbonnier, and second reader, Prof. Robert Muggah. Grateful thanks then go to Francis Hammond, director of CARE international in Chad, for the invaluable work experience he offered me, and for his trust in bringing me over to eastern Chad a second time. Thanks equally go to the UNHCR, OCHA, International Rescue Committee, the Jesuit ..