This article argues for a new refugee integration paradigm that goes beyond colonial practices and neocolonial understandings of integration used to inform policy actions in refugee-hosting nations of the Global South. It advocates for a more just approach that guarantees equal rights and freedoms to those seeking international protection. The article proposes the need for a new approach in humanitarian practice in protracted camps like Kakuma, which is more focused on promoting and protecting the basic refugee rights and freedoms that are increasingly being overlooked in favour of socioeconomic integration founded on capitalistic and colonial models of managing displaced and unwanted populations. This article contends that humanitarianism in one of the oldest and largest camps in the world is still rooted in colonial practices of oppression, restrictions, and marginalization of communities, with the local government acting as an enabler while humanitarian agencies supervise the continued violation of the “bare lives”.