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

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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. 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