Refuge in a Moving World: Tracing Refugee and Migrant Journeys Across Disciplines

Contents
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction:
  Refuge in a moving world: Refugeeand migrant journeys acrossdisciplines
	Setting the scene
	Part I: Researching and Conceptualizing Displacement in a Moving World
	Part II: Responding to Displacement: Advocacy, Aesthetics and Politics in a Moving World
	Part III: Ongoing Journeys: Safety, Rights and Well-being in a Moving World
	Part IV: Spaces of Encounter and Refuge: Cities and Camps in a Moving World
	Conclusion
Part I 
Researching and ConceptualizingDisplacement in a Moving World
	1 
Negotiating research and life spaces: Participatory research approaches with young migrants in the UK
		Introduction
		The research context
		Habib’s experience: Negotiating roles
		Semhar’s experience: What stories to tell?
		Concluding reflections
2 
Voices to be heard? Reflections on refugees, strategic invisibility and the politics of voice
	Introduction
	Labelling, and rigid refugee identity
	Strategic invisibility and labelling
	Final reflections and conclusion
3 
Stories of migration and belonging
	Acknowledgements
4 
Writing the camp, writing the camp archive: The case of Baddawi camp in Lebanon
	Introduction
	Writing the camp archive
	Writing Baddawi refugee camp into literature
	Writing as an eye beyond eyes
	Writing the camp: Vis-à-vis or a camp
	Writing the camp archive
	In mourning the refugee, we mourn God’s intention in the absolute
	The Camp is Time
	A Sudden Utterance is the Stranger
	Flesh when mutilated called God
	The Camp is the Reject of the Reject Par Excellence
	Necessarily, the Camp is the Border
5 
Making home in limbo: Belgian refugees in Britain during the First World War
	Introduction
	A little-known history
	More than just numbers and figures
	The possibilities of empathy
	Disappearing from view, and forgetfulness
	Forgetfulness
	Conclusion
6 
Exploring practices of hospitality and hostility towards migrants through the making of a documentary film: Insights from research in Lampedusa
	Introduction
	Lampedusa and Lampedusans: Context and background
	Representing Lampedusa: The ‘Island of Hostility’ or ‘Hospitality’?
	The rationale for the film: Capturing interactions or disseminating voices?
	Developing the content of the documentary film
	The making of the film: Practicalities, challenges and ways forward
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
7 
Mediterranean distinctions: Forced migration, forceful hope and the analytics of desperation
	On being forced to move
	Desperate analytics
	Crisis?
	Acknowledgements
8 
Does climate change causemigration?
	Introduction: Climigration?
	Why migrate from ‘paradise’?
	Migration as the default
	Constructing climate-change migration
	Contextualizing climate-change migration
	Conclusion: Return to paradise?
Part II 
Responding to Displacement:Advocacy, Aesthetics and Politicsin a Moving World
	9 
We Are Movers: We are towers of strength
		Introduction
		Categories, stereotypes and misrepresentations
		Questioning ‘integration’
		Belonging
	10 
Advocacy for LGBTI asylum in the UK: Discourses of distance and proximity
		Introduction
		A rhetoric of distance
		A rhetoric of proximity
		Conclusion
	11 
The unintended consequences of expanding migrant-rights protections
		Introduction
		Non-refoulement and extraterritoriality
		What is at stake
		The potential for worse counter-responses: From ‘Gitmo’ to drones
		Exceptional backlash responses to extraterritoriality
		Potential backlash responses
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
	12 
Visual politics and the ‘refugee’ crisis: The images of Alan Kurdi
		Introduction
		The Kurdi images in context
		Image and rhetoric
	13 
Crossing borders, bridging boundaries: Reconstructing the rights of the refugee in comics
	14 
Theatre and/as solidarity: Putting yourself in the shoes of a refugee through performance
		Introduction
		Teatro di Nascosto: A methodology informed by hospitality
		Lontano dal Kurdistan (Faraway from Kurdistan)
		Rifugia-ti (Refugees/find refuge)
		Conclusion
	15 
The empty space: Performing migration at the Good Chance Theatre in Calais
		Field Notes: Zone Industrielle des Dunes
	16 
Care in a refugee camp: A case study of a humanitarian volunteer in Calais
		Introduction
		’We never realized we’d have to stay’ – Liz’s introduction to humanitarian aid
		The physical and emotional entanglements of care
		Caring for children and care by children
		Concluding comments
	17  The Jungle
		The Jungle
		Acknowledgements
Part III 
Ongoing Journeys: Safety, Rights andWell-being in a Moving World
	18 
Palliative prophecy: Yezidi perspectives on their suffering under Islamic State and on their future
		Introduction
		Shamanism among the Yezidis
		Persons
		Techniques and circumstances
		Messages
		Specifying and spreading the prophetic messages
		Predictions of flood and fire
		Forecasting fermans
		Actions, inaction and reactions
	19 Queer Russian asylum seekers in Germany: Worthy refugees and acceptable forms of harm?
		Introduction
		Methodology
		The legal debates: From discretion to disbelief
		Fleeing Russia
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
	20 Aspects of loss and coping among internally displaced populations: Towards a psychosocial approach
		Introduction
		The Georgian context
		Latavri’s story
		Resource loss among conflict-affected groups
		Coping strategies among conflict-affected groups
		Conclusion
	21 
Thriving in the face of severe adversity: Understanding and fostering resilience in children affected by war and displacement
		Introduction
		A brief historical overview of the resilience research field
		Stressors and risk factors facing children affected by conflict and displacement
		Protective factors
		Insights from an interdisciplinary workshop and the implications for intervention
		Considerations and challenges for effective resilience programming
		Concluding remarks
	22 
Exploring the psychosocial impact ofcultural interventions with displacedpeople
		Introduction
		Trauma and violence
		Forced displacement and mental health
		Well-being, creative practices and displacement
		Assessing the impact of creative practices on the wellbeingof refugees and asylum seekers
		Helen Bamber Foundation, London: Case study 1
		Co-researching forced displacement and the creative arts
		Talbiyeh refugee camp, Jordan: Case study 2
		Conclusion
	23 Black Markets: Opaque sites of refuge in Cape Town
		Introduction
		Conclusion
	24 Learning in and through the long-term refugee camps in the East African Rift
		The long-term camps in the East African Rift
		Formal, non-formal and informal learning settings
		Homes
		Streets
		Conclusions
	25 
The Palestinian scale: Space at the intersection of refuge and host-country policies
		Introduction
		Constructing the Palestinian scale inside the camp
		Host-government responses to the Palestinian scale
		The Palestinian scale: In operation and response
		Conclusion
	26 
Shifting the gaze: Palestinian and Syrian refugees sharing and contesting space in Lebanon
		Introduction
		Refugee-refugee relationality in situations of precarity3
		Baddawi camp: the ambivalence of hosting
		The creation of inequalities and tensions
		Redefining response, and the poetics of undisclosed care
		Conclusion
	27 
Different shades of ‘neutrality’: Arab Gulf NGO responses to Syrian refugees in northern Lebanon
		Introduction
		Analysing neutrality on the ground: Beyond the logic of failures and successes
		The multi-purposed survival of ‘prophetic humanitarianism’: Neutrality as an imperative ideal
		Political realism as a complex form of ‘new humanitarianism’
		Imperative neutrality and political realism: Effects on the ground?
		Conclusion
	28 
Navigating ambiguous state policies and legal statuses in Turkey: Syrian displacement and migratory horizons
		Introduction
		Being a ‘guest’: Legal limbo, precarity and the uncertain everyday
		Consequences and subversions of Syrian guest status
		Navigating Turkish and Syrian laws
		Syrian future horizons: settling in Turkey, fleeing to Europe
		Conclusion: Syrian migratory paths
	29 
Exploring in-betweenness: Alice and spaces of contradiction in refuge
		Introduction
		Methodology and Alice in Wonderland
		‘Alice’s Alternative Wonderland’
		The Jungle
		Counting the beds
		The missing doors
		The house beyond
		Conclusion
	30 
The imperfect ethics of hospitality: Engaging with the politics of care and refugees’ dwelling practices in the Italian urban context
		Introduction
		The imperfect ethics of hospitality
		The politics of care in the Italian urban context
		Engaging with refugee dwelling practices
		Conclusion
	31 
Producing precarity: The ‘hostile environment’ and austerity for Latin Americans in super-diverse London
		Introduction
		Research methods
		Latin Americans in London: Invisibility and community organizing
		Latin Americans in Southwark: Housing, labour-market incorporation and community organizing
		Access to and provision of services for Latin Americans
		Conclusion: Super-diversity, austerity and the production of precarity
	32 
Encountering Belgians: How Syrian refugees build bridges over troubled water
		Introduction
		Methods
		Troubled waters: Barriers to Belgian bonds
		Building bridges: Syrians’ strategies
		Building bridges: Belgian support
		Conclusion
Index