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.
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
About the Author :
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.
Review :
“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
