Refugee Reception and Camps : Local and Global Perspectives

• Autore: Darling Jonathan
• Pubblicazione: Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 pages)
• Altri autori: StelNora DattaAnkur KeopkeMelora Maria ReichlElena WintersNanneke Collins-BojovicJessica MincaClaudio M. BarbatoErin BurridgeAndrew
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Refugee Reception and Camps: Local and Global Perspectives -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: A Local and Global Perspective on Refugee Reception and Camps -- Establishing a global dialogue -- Rethinking research trends on the 'local' -- Camps and their relations with cities -- Camps and the provision of care -- Camps as economic resources -- Localized manifestations of global processes -- Note -- References -- 2 Setting the Scene: Refugee Reception and the Challenge of 'the Local' -- Introduction -- Refugee reception and the 'local turn' -- Contingency and contracting -- Reception regimes -- Recycling stigma -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I Camps and Their Relations with Cities -- 3 Local Governance of/​through Informal Refugee Camps: Revisiting Lebanon's Palestinian and Syrian 'Gatherings' -- Introduction -- Rethinking the localization and informalization of refugee spaces as a governmentality -- The evolving governance of Lebanon's campscapes: old wine in new bottles? -- Palestinian gatherings -- Syrian gatherings -- Reflections: leveraging the local to reveal the disciplinary continuities in spatial informalization -- Notes -- References -- 4 Unrelated Spaces? Camps and Cities in Jordan and Luxembourg -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Case studies -- Jordan -- Luxembourg -- (Dis)connections between refugee camps and towns -- Infrastructure between the camp and the town -- Supporting refugees beyond the boundaries of the camp -- Working inside and outside the camp and the town -- The 'geography of responsibilities' between the camp and the town -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References. ; 5 Between the Exceptional and the Ordinary: The Local Turn and the Camp in South Asia -- Introduction -- Imagining the camp as a site -- Approaching camps in the Global South -- Urban camps during the Indian partition -- A beginning and an end: a camp in Jammu and Kashmir -- Connecting the cases -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Welcome to the Bubble: Governing the Parisian 'Migration Crisis' from the Street to the Centre de Premier Accueil -- Introduction -- The CPA as crisis urbanism -- What is the dispositif ? -- Migration crisis as urban crisis -- Experimental, ephemeral and inclusive: the genesis of the CPA -- The CPA as dispositif -- A 'modular and replicable' crisis response -- 'Support[ing] the inhabitants of our city': the CPA as municipal solidarity mechanism -- 'Shitty welcomes': volunteers and paradoxical humanitarianism in the CPA -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Camps and the Provision of Care -- 7 The Governance of Migrant Reception and More-​Than-​Local Stories in Southern Costa Rica -- Introduction -- Migrant reception infrastructure in the making -- Transnational entanglements in Costa Rica's migrant reception infrastructure -- (Dis)locating reception -- A story of oblivion -- Business opportunities at Costa Rica's margins -- A story of humanitarian cosmopolitanism: work in the CATEM is 'muy bonito' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Camps and Safe Houses: Serbia's Local Geographies of Reception and Care for Unaccompanied Refugee Children -- Introduction -- The local governance of unaccompanied and separated refugee children -- The reception and care of unaccompanied refugee children in Serbia -- The local governance of care and protection for unaccompanied children -- The Centres for Social Work as a key form of local governance -- The role of local civil society in protecting refugee minors. ; Going 'for Game' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 An Unlikely Host in Humanitarian Reception: Fort McCoy during Operation Allies Welcome in the US -- Introduction -- Ethics and methodology -- Creating a humanitarian border within the US at the military reception centre at Fort McCoy -- The securitization of the Safe Haven -- The power of US veterans and other civilians in promoting humanitarian principles to the evacuated Afghans -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Non-​Care in the Detention Hotel: 20 Years of Australia's Use of 'Alternative Places of Detention' -- Introduction -- 'Alternative places of detention' -- The hotel as hidden camp -- 'Torture hotels': cramped spaces and medical (non-​)care -- Cramping and choking of hotel detainees -- Exacerbating health concerns within detention -- 'Medevac' hotels: continuing denial of care in detention -- The local scale of hotel detention -- The arrival of COVID-​19 in hotel detention -- Carceral churn: denying care through forced (im)mobility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III Camps as Economic Resources -- 11 How Do Camps Affect Cities? The Political Economy of Refugee Camps and Arua, Uganda -- Introduction -- The Ugandan context -- (Unequal) distributions of power: decentralization and urban refugee hosting in Uganda -- Urban power by counting -- under-​resourced by design -- Urban refugees, statistics and (in)visibility -- Bringing city, settlement and national regulations into discussions on urban refugees -- Settlement-​city refugee inflows -- Urban-​settlement mobility: circular migration as an invisible coping strategy -- Looking ahead: 'discovering' the city as a host for refugees -- References -- 12 Refugee Accommodation Industries: Migration Governance, Profit and City Making -- Introduction -- The migration industry and refugee accommodation. ; Berlin's refugee accommodation industry -- Making accommodation profitable: privatization and entrepreneurial remunicipalization -- Local state actors and the financialization of refugee accommodation -- Scandals, frauds and multimillionaires: the private for-​profit sector of the refugee accommodation industry -- Global-​local dynamics and making cities through refugee accommodation industries -- Conclusion -- References -- 13 Humanitarian Governance as Development: Protracted Refugee Camps as Drivers of Investment and Innovation in Refugee-​Hosting Regions -- Introduction -- From the municipal office in Amsterdam to the dreamscape of Zaatari in Jordan -- The camp as opportunity? -- Grand ideas as innovation: socio-​technical design meets post-​humanitarian imaginary -- Ways around the humanitarian-​state nexus? New actors, new technologies and the market -- Reflection: from assisting people to governing space? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 14 Providing Hospitality to Asylum Seekers: Exploring the Tension between Tourism and Refugee Accommodation in Austria's Migration System Through Visual Research -- Introduction -- Hospitality and control as historical continuity -- Strategic decentralization -- Flexible local governance -- The absence of a living environment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Refugee Reception and Camps
• ISBN: 1-5292-2285-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996680980803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Global Migration and Social Change Series