The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of SurvivalRefugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps have consistently been represented as ideal in nature: uniquely secular and democratic spaces, characterized by gender equality. Drawing on extensive research with and about Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, Cuba, Spain, South Africa, and Syria, Fiddian Qasmiyeh explores how, why, and to what effect such idealized depictions have been projected