Refugee Reception and Camps

Local and Global Perspectives
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2283-8
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: Global Migration and Social Change

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This edited collection provides new insights into refugee reception and camps by focusing on the overlap between local and global dynamics in the governance of camps.

Contributors examine how camps are (re)placed within their local contexts across regions including Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. They explore how local environments both influence, and are influenced by, global flows, networks and connections in the governance of refugee camps.

By highlighting these interconnections, this volume provides valuable insights for scholars, policy makers and practitioners seeking to understand the complex realities of refugee camps around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oesch, Lucas

Lemaire, Léa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Darling, Jonathan

Stel, Nora

Datta, Ankur

Keopke, Melora

Reichl, Elena Maria

Winters, Nanneke

Collins-Bojovic, Jessica

Minca, Claudio

Barbato, Erin M.

Burridge, Andrew

Easton-Calabria, Evan

Kreichauf, René

Jansen, Bram

Kolowratnik, Nina

Pointl, Johannes

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: A Local and Global Perspective on Refugee Reception and Camps - Lucas Oesch and Le´a Lemaire

2. Setting the Scene: Refugee Reception and the Challenge of ‘the Local’ - Jonathan Darling

Part 1: Camps and Their Relations with Cities

3. Local Governance of/through Informal Refugee Camps: Revisiting Lebanon’s Palestinian and Syrian ‘Gatherings’ - Nora Stel

4. Unrelated spaces? Camps and cities in Jordan and Luxembourg - Léa Lemaire and Lucas Oesch

5. Between the Exceptional and the Ordinary: The Local Turn and the Camp in South Asia - Ankur Datta

6. Welcome to the Bubble: Governing the Parisian ‘Migration Crisis’ from the Street to the Centre de premier accueil - Melora Koepke

Part 2: Camps and the Provision of Care

7. The Governance of Migrant Reception and More-Than-Local Stories in Southern Costa Rica - Elena Reichl and Nanneke Winters

8. Camps and Safe Houses: Serbia’s Local Geographies of Reception and Care for Unaccompanied Refugee Children - Jessica Collins-Bojovic and Claudio Minca

9. An Unlikely Host in Humanitarian Reception: Fort McCoy during Operation Allies Welcome in the US - Erin Barbato

10. Non-Care in the Detention Hotel: 20 Years of Australia’s use of ‘Alternative Places of Detention’ - Andrew Burridge

Part 3: Camps as Economic Resources

11. How Do Camps Affect Cities? The Political Economy of Refugee Camps and Arua, Uganda - Evan Easton-Calabria

12. Refugee Accommodation Industries: Migration Governance, Profit and City Making - René Kreichauf

13. Humanitarian Governance as Development: Protracted Refugee Camps as Drivers of Investment and Innovation in Refugee-Hosting Regions - Bram J. Jansen

14. Providing Hospitality to Asylum Seekers: Exploring the Tension between Tourism and Refugee Accommodation in Austria’s Migration System through Visual Research - Nina Valerie Kolowratnik and Johannes Pointl

Über Autor(innen)

Oesch, Lucas
University of Neuchâtel

Lemaire, Léa
Léa Lemaire is Associate Researcher at Mesopolhis, Aix-Marseille University. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg where she managed the REFUGOV research project on refugee reception in Luxembourg and Jordan.

Easton-Calabria, Evan
Evan Easton-Calabria is a Senior Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, UK.

Lucas Oesch is Scientific Officer at the University of Neuchâtel. He was previously based at the University of Luxembourg where he directed the REFUGOV research project on refugee reception in Luxembourg and Jordan.

Léa Lemaire is Associate Researcher at Mesopolhis, Aix-Marseille University and at REPI, Université libre de Bruxelles. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg where she managed the REFUGOV research project on refugee reception in Luxembourg and Jordan.