Sahrawi refugee condition and camps experience: understand their exceptional nature

Today's situation in Western Sahara and its increasing relevance in the international context hide a long-term human displacement condition and a protracted political gridlock. Numerous studies have described the complexity and challenges in refugee camps contexts and a fair number of studies have addressed the Sahrawi’s political and humanitarian condition from various perspectives. Nevertheless, it seems necessary to consider Sahrawi’s political status and refugee camps experience as exceptional according to different points of view. This paper intends to partially describe why it is possible to distinguish several forms of ‘state of exception’ while considering Sahrawi people's condition in refugee camps.