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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.
List 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.
Mark E. Breeze is a Harvard-trained architect and the Founding Chair of the University of Cambridge Sustainable Shelter Group. He currently teaches architectural design, history and theory at the Architectural Association, London.
