Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited collection provides new insights into refugee reception and camps by focusing on the overlap between local and global dynamics in the governance of camps, providing valuable insights to understand the complex realities of refugee camps around the world.
Introduction: A local and global perspective on refugee reception and camps - Lucas Oesch and Léa Lemaire Setting the scene: Refugee reception and the challenge of ‘the local’ - Jonathan Darling Part 1: Camps and their relations with cities Between the exceptional and the ordinary: The local turn and the camp in South Asia - Ankur data The local governance of informal refugee camps in Lebanon – from Palestinian ‘gatherings’ to Syrian ‘settlements’ - Nora Stel The governance of migrant reception and more-than-local stories in a Costa Rican border town - Elena Reichl and Nanneke Winters Unrelated spaces? Camps and cities in Jordan and Luxembourg - Lucas Oesch & Léa Lemaire Carceral urbanism and spaces of non-care: Australia’s use of alternative places of detention, 2002-2022 - Andrew Burridge Part 2: Camps and the provision of care The Rohingya camp jurisdiction puzzle: How fractured jurisdiction impacts humanitarian aid provision by local, international and governmental actors - Yasmin Khan Understanding safe houses: Serbia’s geographies of reception and care of unaccompanied - Jessica Collins and Claudio Minca From barbed wire to welcome signs: The US military both welcomes and deters people seeking refuge in the United States - Erin Barbato ‘Bienvenue dans La Bulle’: Politics and paradoxes in an experimental dispositif of migration reception in Paris - Melora Koepke Who cares? Practices and meanings of care in refugee camps around the world. From Moria to Kakuma - Claudia Böhme Part 3: Camps as economic resources How do camps affect cities? The political economy of refugee camps and Arua, Uganda - Evan Easton‐Calabria Humanitarian governance as development: Protracted refugee camps as drivers of investment and innovation in Kenya and Jordan - Bram J. Jansen Migration governance and uneven development? Economic actors, practices and geographies of migrant camps in Greece - Panos Hatziprokopiou Forced migration as urban development: Berlin’s accommodation approach and the development of sheltering as the new urban norm - René Kreichauf Conclusion: Future perspectives in research on and practice of refugee reception and camps from the local to the global - Lucas Oesch and Léa Lemaire
Lucas Oesch is Scientific Officer at Universite de Neuchtel. Previously, he was Principle Investigator for the REFUGOV research project on refugee reception in Luxembourg and Jordan. Lea Lemaire is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg where she oversaw the REFUGOV research project on refugee reception in Luxembourg and Jordan.
Reviews for Refugee Reception and Camps: Local and Global Perspectives
‘This vital collection offers rare, incisive insights into the entangled local and global dynamics shaping refugee camps within a uniquely global frame.’ Paolo Novak, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
