Today, camps have become almost synonymous with the refugee experience. The most essential feature of a camp is the authoritarian character of their administration; they are like ‘total institutions’, places where, as in prisons or mental hospitals, everything is highly organized, where the inhabitants are depersonalized and where people become numbers without names. Another characteristic of camps, especially those where people have no access to land, is the persistent shortage of food. For example, the normal prevalence of acute malnutrition in various African countries is said to be between three per cent and five per cent. In nine camps in Sudan, the Centres for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, found the acute malnutrition of children under five varied between 20 per cent and 70 per cent! There is now much evidence that refugee camps are not good for anyone. No-one freely chooses to move into a refugee camp to stay. Everyone who can gets out of them as quickly as possible. This is why there are almost always more refugees living among their hosts outside of camps. One way or another, and wherever possible, these refugees have become ‘integrated’ into the host society. We also know that where refugees can get land, or are not restricted in movement and are able to find employment, they are better off than those living in camps. Moreover, they are not just using the resources of host institutions, they are also contributing to their host’s economy.