Continental Encampment : : Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe /

Continental Encampment : : Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe / / ed. by Are John Knudsen, Kjersti G. Berg.

During the past decade, Syria’s displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world’s premier refugee-hosting regions. The measures to prevent refugees and migrants from leaving the region, and returning those who do, has made the region a zone of containment where millions remain displace...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Agier, Michel,
Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad,
Berg, Kjersti G.,
Bryant, Rebecca,
Chatty, Dawn,
De Lauri, Antonio,
Doraï, Kamel,
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland,
Hoffmann, Sophia,
Knudsen, Are John,
Piraud-Fournet, Pauline,
White, Benjamin Thomas,
HerausgeberIn:
Berg, Kjersti G.,
Knudsen, Are John,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Humanitarianism and Security ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. Continental Encampment Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe
  • CHAPTER 1 An Imperial Lens on Refuge in Greater Syria: Antecedents to Contemporary Humanitarian Practices
  • CHAPTER 2 The Global Origins of the Modern Refugee Camp: Military Humanitarianism and Colonial Occupation at Baquba, Iraq, 1918–1920
  • CHAPTER 3 A Necessary Evil: A History of Palestinian Refugee Camps, UNRWA and Jordan, 1950–1970
  • CHAPTER 4 Contained at the Margins: Syrian Refugees’ Settlement Experience in Northern Jordan
  • CHAPTER 5 Iraqi Refugees in Syria, 2003–2011 The Emergence of UNHCR-led Migration Management in the Levant
  • CHAPTER 6 Four Buildings and a Bungalow: Architectures of Containment in Sabra, Beirut
  • CHAPTER 7 Turkey’s Biopolitical Buffer Zones and the Temporalities of Containment
  • CHAPTER 8 Journeys Interrupted: The Labyrinthine Border Experience along the Balkan Route
  • CHAPTER 9 Humanitarian Lampedusa and the Theatralization of Crisis
  • Afterword
  • Index

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