Structures of Protection?: Rethinking Refugee Shelter

Published by Berghahn Books 2020

Structures of Protection?

Rethinking Refugee Shelter

Edited by: Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze

Volume 39 in the series Forced Migration

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207132

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor 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.

Mark E. Breeze is a Harvard-trained architect and the Founding Chair of the University of Cambridge Sustainable Shelter Group. He currently teaches architectural design, history and theory at the Architectural Association, London.

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.

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction. Places of Partial Protection: Refugee Shelter since 2015 Tom Scott-Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Shelter, Containment and Mobility
1 Moving, Containing, Displacing: The Shipping Container as Refugee Shelter Hanna Baumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2 At the Edge: Containment and the Construction of Europe Cetta Mainwaring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3 Shifting Shelters: Migrants, Mobility and the Making of Open Centres in Malta Marthe Achtnich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4 Moria: Anti-shelter and the Spectacle of Deterrence Daniel Howden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5 Moria Hotspot: Shelter as a Politically Crafted Materiality of Neglect Polly Pallister-Wilkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
6 Architectures of Trauma: Forced Shelter and Immigration Detention Petra Molnar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
7 Settling the Unsettled: Forced Shelter in the Negev Desert Renana Ne’eman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Part II Shelter, Resistance and Solidarity
8 The Contingent Camp: Struggling for Shelter in Calais, France Maria Hagan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
9 Sounding the Shelter, Voicing the Squat: The Sonic Politics of Refugee Shelter in Athens Tom Western Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
10 Redignifying Refugees: A Critical Study of Citizen-Run Shelters in Athens Ashley Mehra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
11 A More Personal Shelter: How Citizens Are Hosting Forced Migrants in and around Brussels Robin Vandevoordt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
12 Life in the Aluminium Whale: A Study of Berlin’s ICC Shelter Holly Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
13 Structures to Shelter the Mind: Refugee Housing and Mental Wellbeing in Berlin Esther Schroeder Goh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Part III Architecture, Design and Displacement
14 Protection or Isolation? Humanitarian Evacuees in Australian Quarantine Stations Benjamin Thomas White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
15 Silos in Trieste, Italy: A Historical Shelter for Displaced People Roberta Altin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
16 Flexible Shelters, Modular Meanings: The Lives and Afterlives of Danish ‘Refugee Villages’ Zachary Whyte and Michael Ulfstjerne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
17 Shelter as Cladding: Resourcefulness, Improvisation and Refugee-Led Innovation in Goudoubo Camp Craig Martin, Jamie Cross and Arno Verhoeven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
18 Adhocism, Agency and Emergency Shelters: On Architectural Nuclei of Life in Displacement Irit Katz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
19 Social Media, Shelter and Resilience: Design in Za’atari Refugee Camp Diane Fellows Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
20 Confinement, Power and Permanence in Informal Refugee Spaces: Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Faten Kikano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
21 From Emergency Shelter to Community Shelter: Berlin’s Tempelhof Refugee Camp Toby Parsloe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Conclusion: Towards Better Shelter: Rethinking Humanitarian Sheltering Mark E. Breeze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320

eBook

Published: May 1, 2020
ISBN: 9781789207132