Architecture of Migration - The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement

List of contents

Abbreviations  xiii
Author’s Note  xv
Introduction. Architecture and History in a Refugee Camp  1
1. From Partitions  51
2. Land, Emergency, and Sedentarization in East Africa  99
3. Shelter and Domesticity  141
4. An Archive of Humanitarian Settlement  181
5. Design as Infrastructure  249
Afterword. “Poetry Is a Weapon That We Use in Both War and Peace”  305
Acknowledgments  321
Notes  329
Primary Sources  363
References  371
Index  397

About the author

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University, and coeditor of Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration and Spatial Violence.

Summary

Focusing on the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-Somalia border, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi shows how a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes—even if born out of emergency—reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics.

Product details

• Authors: Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781478025245
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-2524-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Theory in Forms
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous