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.
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Introduction: Places of Partial Protection: Refugee Shelter since 2015Tom Scott-Smith
Part I: Shelter, Containment and Mobility
Chapter 1. Moving, Containing, Displacing: The Shipping Container as Refugee ShelterHanna Baumann
Chapter 2. At the Edge: Containment and the Construction of EuropeCetta Mainwaring
Chapter 3. Shifting Shelters: Migrants, Mobility and the Making of Open Centres in MaltaMarthe Achtnich
Chapter 4.Moria: Anti-shelter and the Spectacle of DeterrenceDaniel Howden
Chapter 5. Moria Hotspot: Shelter as a Politically Crafted Materiality of NeglectPolly Pallister-Wilkins
Chapter 6. Architectures of Trauma: Forced Shelter and the Impact of Immigration DetentionPetra Molnar
Chapter 7. Settling the Unsettled: Forced Shelter in the Negev DesertRenana Neeman
Part II: Shelter, Resistance and Solidarity
Chapter 8. The Contingent Camp: Struggling for Shelter in Calais, FranceMaria Hagan
Chapter 9. Sounding the Shelter, Voicing the Squat: The Sonic Politics of Refugee Shelter in AthensTom Western
Chapter 10. Redignifying Refugees: A Critical Study of Citizen-Run Shelters in AthensAshley Mehra
Chapter 11. A More Personal Shelter: How Citizens Are Hosting Forced Migrants in and Around BrusselsRobin Vandevoordt
Chapter 12. Life in the Aluminium Whale: A Study of Berlins ICC shelterHolly Young
Chapter 13. Structures to Shelter the Mind: Refugee Housing and Mental Wellbeing in BerlinEsther Schroeder Goh
Part III: Architecture, Design and Displacement
Chapter 14. Protection or isolation? Humanitarian Evacuees in Australian Quarantine StationsBenjamin Thomas White
Chapter 15.Silos in Trieste: A Historical Shelter for Displaced PeopleRoberta Altin
Chapter 16. Flexible Shelters, Modular Meanings: The Lives and Afterlives of Danish Refugee VillagesZachary Whyte and Michael Ulfstjerne
Chapter 17. Shelter as Cladding: Resourcefulness, Improvisation and Refugee-Led Innovation in Goudoubo CampCraig Martin, Jamie Cross, and Arno Verhoeven
Chapter 18. Adhocism, Agency and Emergency Shelters: On Architectural Nuclei of Life in DisplacementIrit Katz
Chapter 19. Social Media, Shelter and Resilience: Design in Zaatari Refugee CampDiane Fellows
Chapter 20. Confinement, Power and Permanence in Informal Refugee Spaces: Syrian Refugees in LebanonFaten Kikano
Chapter 21. From Emergency Shelter to Community Shelter: Berlins Tempelhof Refugee CampToby Parsloe
Conclusion: Towards Better Shelter: Rethinking Humanitarian ShelteringMark E. Breeze
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