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Contents

List of Figures

Foreword
Michel Agier

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

 Chapter 1. An Imperial Lens on Refuge in Greater Syria: Antecedents to Contemporary Humanitarian Practices
Dawn Chatty

Chapter 2. The Global Origins of the Modern Refugee Camp: Military Humanitarianism and Colonial Occupation at Baquba, Iraq, 1918–1920
Benjamin Thomas White

Chapter 3. A Necessary Evil: A History of Palestinian Refugee Camps, UNRWA and Jordan (1950-1970)
Kjersti G. Berg

Chapter 4. Contained at the Margins: Syrian Refugees’ Settlement Experience in Northern Jordan
Kamel Doraï and Pauline Piraud-Fournet

Chapter 5. Iraqi Refugees in Syria, 2003-2011: The Emergence of UNHCR-led Migration Management in the Levant
Sophia Hoffmann

Chapter 6. Four Buildings and a Bungalow: Architectures of Containment in Sabra, Beirut
Are John Knudsen

Chapter 7. Turkey’s Biopolitical Buffer Zones and the Temporalities of Containment
Rebecca Bryant 

Chapter 8. Journeys Interrupted: The Labyrinthine Border Experience Along the Balkan Route
Synnøve Kristine Nepstad Bendixsen 

Chapter 9. Humanitarian Lampedusa and the Theatralisation of Crisis
Antonio De Lauri

Afterword
Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Index

Continental Encampment

Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

Edited by Are John Knudsen and Kjersti G. Berg

Foreword by Michel Agier
Afterword by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

276 pages, 18 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80073-844-7 Hb Published (February 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80073-845-4 eBook

Details

During the past decade, Syria’s displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world’s foremost 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 displaced. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the first refugee camps to the present-day displacement ‘crises’ and the re-bordering of Europe.

Are John Knudsen is Research Professor at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and an International Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM), Paris. Knudsen specializes on forced displacement, camp-based and urban refugees in the Middle East, in particular Lebanon.

Kjersti G. Berg is a Postdoctoral Researcher at CMI, Bergen, and Associate Professor at NLA University College, Norway. Kjersti is a historian and researches encampment, Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, and the Palestine Question.

Related Link: BLOG: Editors John Knudsen and Kjersti Berg discuss Continental Encampment

Series: Volume 2, Humanitarianism and Security

Subject: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

Area: Middle East & Israel Europe

LC: HV640 .C645 2023

BL: DRT ELD.DS.765555

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC066000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Refugees; SOC007000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Emigration & Immigration