Structures of Protection? - Rethinking Refugee Shelter

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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Breeze Scott-Smith
• Assisted by: Mark E. Breeze (Editor), Tom Scott-Smith (Editor), Scott-Smith Tom (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781800736306
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-630-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Forced Migration
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum