أثر اللاجئين الصوماليين على المجتمع المضيف في كينيا : دراسة حالة معسكر كاكوما للاجئين-شمال غرب كينيا

The research examined the impact of Somali refugees on the host community at Kakuma Somali refugee camp in North-West Kenya. The aim of the research was to find out the extent to which the presence of Somali refugees affected socio-cultural and economic changes in the host community.the problem of the research was that the prolonged stay of Somali refugees in Kakuma area and the decline of services could cause economic and social problems for the host community. the researcher followed the inductive and descriptive approach and the interview as a research tool. chapter I addressed the methodological framework of the research. Chapter II addressed the concept of asylum and its legal nature in international humanitarian law. Chapter III discussed the presence of Somali refugees in Kakuma camp in Kenya. The research found several findings, the most important being inadequate environmental awareness of refugees as they are behaving inappropriately and harmful to the environment to which they have sought refuge, and that refugees reflect negative impacts on the states to which they seek refuge in terms of their environmental, security, social, economic and political situation. The researcher recommended that rewarding compensation should be provided to Kakuma area as refugees are a significant burden on the region, while raising the environmental awareness of refugees in order to conform to the requirements of the environmental situation in our time