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Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and history, each of the chapters describes a particular shelter and uses this to open up theoretical reflections on the relationship between architecture, place, politics, design and displacement.

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Author:   Tom Scott-Smith ,  Mark E. Breeze
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800736306

ISBN 10:   1800736304
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   14 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Introduction: Places of Partial Protection: Refugee Shelter since 2015 Tom Scott-Smith Part I: Shelter, Containment and Mobility Chapter 1. Moving, Containing, Displacing: The Shipping Container as Refugee Shelter Hanna Baumann Chapter 2. At the Edge: Containment and the Construction of Europe Cetta Mainwaring Chapter 3. Shifting Shelters: Migrants, Mobility and the Making of Open Centres in Malta Marthe Achtnich Chapter 4. Moria: Anti-shelter and the Spectacle of Deterrence Daniel Howden Chapter 5. Moria Hotspot: Shelter as a Politically Crafted Materiality of Neglect Polly Pallister-Wilkins Chapter 6. Architectures of Trauma: Forced Shelter and the Impact of Immigration Detention Petra Molnar Chapter 7. Settling the Unsettled: Forced Shelter in the Negev Desert Renana Ne’eman Part II: Shelter, Resistance and Solidarity Chapter 8. The Contingent Camp: Struggling for Shelter in Calais, France Maria Hagan Chapter 9. Sounding the Shelter, Voicing the Squat: The Sonic Politics of Refugee Shelter in Athens Tom Western Chapter 10. Redignifying Refugees: A Critical Study of Citizen-Run Shelters in Athens Ashley Mehra Chapter 11. A More Personal Shelter: How Citizens Are Hosting Forced Migrants in and Around Brussels Robin Vandevoordt Chapter 12. Life in the Aluminium Whale: A Study of Berlin’s ICC shelter Holly Young Chapter 13. Structures to Shelter the Mind: Refugee Housing and Mental Wellbeing in Berlin Esther Schroeder Goh Part III: Architecture, Design and Displacement Chapter 14. Protection or isolation? Humanitarian Evacuees in Australian Quarantine Stations Benjamin Thomas White Chapter 15. Silos in Trieste: A Historical Shelter for Displaced People Roberta Altin Chapter 16. Flexible Shelters, Modular Meanings: The Lives and Afterlives of Danish ‘Refugee Villages’ Zachary Whyte and Michael Ulfstjerne Chapter 17. Shelter as Cladding: Resourcefulness, Improvisation and Refugee-Led Innovation in Goudoubo Camp Craig Martin, Jamie Cross, and Arno Verhoeven Chapter 18. Adhocism, Agency and Emergency Shelters: On Architectural Nuclei of Life in Displacement Irit Katz Chapter 19. Social Media, Shelter and Resilience: Design in Za’atari Refugee Camp Diane Fellows Chapter 20. Confinement, Power and Permanence in Informal Refugee Spaces: Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Faten Kikano Chapter 21. From Emergency Shelter to Community Shelter: Berlin’s Tempelhof Refugee Camp Toby Parsloe Conclusion: Towards Better Shelter: Rethinking Humanitarian Sheltering Mark E. Breeze Index

Reviews

While there has been an exponential growth in the literature on refugees and forced migration over the past decade, the issue of shelter has received very little attention. This volume fills that important gap in an admirable manner. * Jeff Crisp, University of Oxford This is a very good collection that is engaging, clear in its focus, and wide-ranging in the cases and examples it covers. The broad and inclusive category of 'shelter' is applied well to pull together the various contributions and offers a novel way of examining questions of protection, displacement, and accommodation. * Jonathan Darling, Durham University

“While there has been an exponential growth in the literature on refugees and forced migration over the past decade, the issue of shelter has received very little attention. This volume fills that important gap in an admirable manner.” • Jeff Crisp, University of Oxford “This is a very good collection that is engaging, clear in its focus, and wide-ranging in the cases and examples it covers. The broad and inclusive category of ‘shelter’ is applied well to pull together the various contributions and offers a novel way of examining questions of protection, displacement, and accommodation.” • Jonathan Darling, Durham University

Author Information

Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford. His book On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief is published by Cornell University Press.

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