ABOUT THIS BOOK

The journeys and experiences of refugees and migrants are deeply complex and highly varied. It takes critical reflections from a diverse range of fields and angles to communicate the nuanced tangles of power structures and inequalities on local, national, and international levels. Bringing (?) together over thirty contributions, Refuge in a Moving World discusses migration and displacement from a kaleidoscopic collection of voices.

Through interdisciplinary lenses, the contributors explore the ways that different people experience and respond to their own situations and to those of other people. Refuge in a Moving World combines vital reflections on the intricacies of conceptualizing experiences of forced migration and how people inhabit and negotiate everyday life. Ultimately, Refuge in a Moving World argues that working collaboratively to share experiences of migration and displacement fosters more sustainable responses to our moving world.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies and Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit at UCL, where she is also Director of the Refuge in a Moving World research network. She is the author of many books, most recently The Handbook of South-South Relations.

REVIEWS

"Interdisciplinarity is [...] one of this book’s most significant contributions. Placing social scientists, urban planners, artists, activists, and other interlocutors in conversation with each other greatly enriches the scholarship on forced migration and displacement. ... The second most important contribution of this volume is its ability to go beyond academia and to speak to a wider public. Bringing the scholarly discourse about displacement outside academia and making it accessible to a wider public is greatly needed to undermine the concept of “crisis” and the binary understandings of refugeehood and refugees.'
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Figures and Table List of Abbreviations About the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Refuge in a Moving World: Refugee and migrant journeys across disciplines Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh Part I: Researching and Conceptualising Displacement in a Moving World 1. Negotiating Research and Life Spaces: Participatory research approaches with young migrants in the UK Semhar Haile, Francesca Meloni and Habib Rezaie 2. Voices to be Heard? Reflections on refugees, strategic invisibility and the politics of voice Semhar Haile 3. Stories of Migration and Belonging Eva Hoffman and Jonny Steinberg in conversation with Tamar Garb 4. Writing the Camp, Writing the Archive: The case of Baddawi refugee camp Yousif M. Qasmiyeh 5. Making Home in Limbo: Belgian refugees in Britain during the First World War Christophe Declerq 6. Exploring Practices of Hospitality and Hostility toward Migrants through the Making of a Documentary Film: Insights from research in Lampedusa Michela Franceschelli and Adele Galipò 7. Mediterranean distinctions: forced migration, forceful hope, and the analytics of desperation Alice Elliot 8. Does Climate Change Cause Migration? Ilan Kelman Part II: Responding To Displacement: Advocacy, Aesthetics and Politics in a Moving World 9. We Are Movers: We are towers of strength We are Movers 10. Advocacy for LGBTI Asylum in the UK: Discourses of distance and proximity Thibaut Raboin 11. The Unintended Consequences of Expanding Migrant Rights Protections Ralph Wilde 12. Visual Politics and the 'Refugee' Crisis: The images of Alan Kurdi Tom Snow 13. Crossing Borders, Bridging Boundaries: Reconstructing the rights of the refugee in comics Dominic Davies 14. Theatre and/as Solidarity: Putting yourself in the shoes of a refugee through performance Marta Niccolai 15. The Empty Space: Performing migration at the Good Chance Theatre in Calais Tom Bailey 16. Care in a Refugee Camp: A case study of a humanitarian volunteer in Calais Sarah Crafter and Rachel Rosen 17. The Jungle Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Part III: Ongoing Journeys: Safety, Rights and Well-Being in a Moving World 18. Palliative Prophecy: Yezidi perspectives on their suffering under Islamic State and on their future Tyler Fisher, Nahro Zagros and Muslih Mustafa 19. Queer Russian Asylum-Seekers in Germany: Worthy refugees and acceptable forms of harm? Richard C. M. Mole 20. Aspects of Loss and Coping Amongst Internally Displaced Populations: Toward a psychosocial approach Maureen Seguin 21. Thriving in the Face of Severe Adversity: Understanding and fostering resilience in children affected by war and displacement Karolin Krause and Evelyn Sharples 22. Exploring the Psychosocial Impact of Cultural Interventions with Displaced People Helen J. Chatterjee, Clelia Clini, Beverley Butler, Fatima Al-Nammar, Rula Al-Asir and Cornelius Katona Part IV: Spaces of Encounter and Refuge: Cities and Camps in a Moving World 23. Black Markets: Opaque sites of refuge in Cape Town Huda Tayob 24. Learning in and through the Long-Term Refugee Camps in the East African Rift Nerea Amorós Elorduy 25. The Palestinian Scale: Space at the intersection of refuge and host country policies Samar Maqusi 26. Shifting the Gaze: Palestinian and Syrian refugees sharing, making and contesting space in Lebanon Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh 27. Different Shades of 'Neutrality': Arab Gulf NGO response to Syrian refugees in Northern Lebanon Estella Carpi 28. Navigating Ambiguous State Policies and Legal Statuses in Turkey: Syrian displacement and migratory horizons Charlotte Loris-Rodionoff 29. EXPLORING IN-BETWEENness: Alice and spaces of contradiction in refuge S. Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami 30. The Imperfect Ethics of Hospitality: Engaging with the politics of care and refugees’ dwelling practices in the Italian urban context Giovanna Astolfo and Camillo Boano 31. Producing Precarity: The ‘hostile environment’ and austerity for Latin Americans in super-diverse London Mette Berg 32. Encountering Belgians: How Syrian refugees build bridges over troubled water Robin Vandevoordt Index