Dawn Chatty
Biographic Data
| ID | 117103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dawn Chatty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dawn |
| FAMILY NAME | Chatty |
| SIGNATURE | CHATTY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8710-6603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Refugees and asylum seekers in Europe need a rights-based approach to the issue of return
BOX European asylum policies have become increasingly restrictive, raising concerns about the protection of refugee rights, including access to healthcare and adherence to the principle of non-refoulement
Refugee Governance in the Arab World
The Arab region has played an oversized role in hosting refugees. Yet a paucity of literature exists on how the region has contributed to shaping the international refugee regime. This open access anthology presents the first comprehensive study of how Arab states interact with the international refugee regime. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective bringing together historical, political, legal, sociological, and anthropological approaches. T…
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern
Refuge in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean
After the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in 2003, the European Union became fixated on keeping refugees from the Middle East out of Europe. By 2015, with the mass influx of Syrians, Iraqis, and others, seeking safety across the Balkans, the European response was an extraordinary effort to push back and contain these displaced people within the Eastern Mediterranean region through physical barriers, bilateral agreements, and the establishment of …
Kobi Peled, Words Like Daggers
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Becoming Adult on the Move
This book draws on a unique study of unaccompanied child migrants who subsequently turned 18. It re-situates the migration of children into Europe ...
Continental Encampment
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 displaced. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of t…
Watfa’ Speaks
William Lancaster (1938-2022)
Introduction to Special Issue
The articles presented here in this special issue on Displaced Syria emerged from a workshop held at The Institute of New York University in Abu Dhabi in March 2019. Its aims were to encourage an examination of the perceptions and aspiration of displaced Syrians and practitioners in hosting countries in the Levant, the Gulf, and in Europe with special attention to the voices of the displaced, their reimagining of home and homeland, and the emergi…
Mobile Herders and Sustaining Life on Our Planet
Organizing Women
Mikkel Bille, Being Bedouin Around Petra
Commentary
A Post-Imperial Lens on Displacement and Refuge in the Middle East
This paper will address how todayâ s refugee regime and response to displacement in Middle East might have roots and precedents, but also ruptures with its Ottoman past. Imperial encounters with multiculturalism and ethnic diversity characterised the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires as well as the colonies that were ruled by European empires. Of all these colonial and imperial encounters, perhaps the Ottoman Empire was uniquely challenged to …
How Syria's Neighbors Have Treated Its Refugees
The memory of the ties among the region's peoples under the Ottoman Empire has played a part in the kind of reception Syrians have received in their neighboring places of refuge
The Politics of Suffering
Nell Gabiam’s timely and original book makes an excellent contribution to the limited literature on Palestinian refugees in Syria. The need to be seen to ‘suffer’ as her title suggests has long been a mantra of Palestinian refugees throughout the Middle East. A visit to any Palestinian refugee living in a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) camp would be struck by the poverty and crowdedness of the camp as well as its bareness (any sho…
Islamic Traditions of Refuge in the Crises of Iraq and Syria By Tahir Zaman
This timely book seeks to understand how the ‘stranger’ is conceptualized in the specific Islamic traditions of asylum, refuge and sanctuary and how these constructions are operationalized by Iraqi refugees in Syria. By focusing on the religious experiences of Iraqi forced migrants in Syria, Zaman makes an important contribution to understandings of the refugee experience in the Muslim world, as well as the interaction between religion, the agenc…
Special Issue Introduction
Academic interest in the study of forced migration as a specific field developed only in the late 20th century. But its conceptual tools had a much earlier incarnation in the United States. In the early 20th century historical linguistic and ethnographic research was being conducted with Native American peoples who had been subjected to massive ethnic cleansings in the preceding two centuries. Much of that early work was with tribes who had been …
The duty to be generous (karam)
The international standard of providing protection to a category of people who have crossed state borders and fit the legal definition of 'refugee' is a rightsbased construction fashionable in public discourse at present.Middle Eastern constructions of duty-based obligations to the guest, stranger, and person-in-need are, however, less well understood.This article explores the disconnect between international rights-based protection approaches to…
Bread from Stones
Book review: Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism by Keith David Watenpaugh Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015, 272 pp
Refugee Voices
Settled people have been forced to move and nomads have been coerced into settling for as long as there has been history. Until the emergence of the Westphalian concept of the nation (where the state corresponded to the nation, groups of people united by language and culture), movement and mobility were largely recognized and accommodated. However, most contemporary academic disciplines as well as public institutions adopt a particular sedentist …
Heritage Policies, Tourism and Pastoral Groups in the Sultanate of Oman
Although heritage and its preservation has been at the forefront of Omani policy for several decades, tourism to the country has been restricted, until recently, to small elite tour groups either taking advantage of the sun and sand or, in Dhofar, the cool and humid post monsoon landscapes. Pastoralist communities in the desert interior have been largely excluded from heritage tourism and tourist ventures with the exception of Disneyfied 'Arabian…
Anthropology and Forced Migration
This chapter examines the lived experience of forced migration and articulates anthropology’s unique contributions to the field of refugee and forced migration studies in documenting the impact of displacement and dispossession on refugees and exiles, their culture, and society. It first discusses the history of anthropology and the academic field of forced migration studies as well as critical anthropological concepts in the field. It then looks…
From Camel to Truck
The duty to be generous (karam)
The international standard of providing protection to a category of people who have crossed state borders and fit the legal definition of 'refugee' is a rightsbased construction fashionable in public discourse at present.Middle Eastern constructions of duty-based obligations to the guest, stranger, and person-in-need are, however, less well understood.This article explores the disconnect between international rights-based protection approaches to…
The Bedouin in Contemporary Syria
Little information is available regarding contemporary relations between Bedouin tribes and the Syrian state apparatus. These ties are mainly expressed through relationships of patronage and clientism between tribal leaders and state operatives. The Bedouin tribes of Syria continue to function as groups tied in networks of real and fictive kinship; these bonds provide the tribal members with a solidarity and cohesiveness which the state has not b…
Theoretical and Methodological Challenges of Studying Refugee Children in the Middle East and North Africa
This article aims to address a number of conceptual and methodological challenges facing the study of young refugees. Much of the research on refugees has, until recently, been focused on adults, and to a lesser degree, on young children. Those studies that do include children are largely carried out in the domain of psychology and psychiatry and tend to pathologize and individualize. This article is based on observations derived from a six-year,…
Unlocking Protracted Displacement
The displaced from Iraq now constitute one of the largest refugee populations worldwide manifesting the evolving conditions of "protracted displacement". Unlocking this protracted crisis of displacement requires analysis of the perceptions of solutions, durable and not-so-durable, among all stakeholders. This article focuses on the local-level perceptions of practitioners, policy-makers, and Iraqi refugees in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. It is bas…
Organizing Women
Contents: Dawn Chatty, Preface -- Dawn Chatty & Annika Rabo, Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East: Introduction and Overview -- Valentine Moghadam, Women's NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa: Constraints, Opportunities, and Priorities -- Suad Joseph, Shopkeepers and Feminists: The Reproduction of Political Process (Lebanon) -- Seteney Shami, Domesticity Reconfigured: Women in Squatter Areas of Amman (Jordan) -- Eva Evers Ro…
Conceptual Problems in Forced Migration
Scholars have made rapid progress in establishing the field of Refugee Studies/Forced Migration Studies over the past 30 years. It has emerged from both the moral imperative of ameliorating the suffering of the displaced and from academic interests of scholars considering involuntary migration from the perspectives of sociology, geography, political science and international relations, anthropology, and international law. In spite of this broad i…
Researching Refugee Youth in the Middle East
This paper reflects on the value of comparative anthropological research with refugee youth. It examines a participatory research programme in eight field sites in the Middle East and North Africa. While recognizing the importance of the specific socio-political and cultural context of the different field sites, it has been possible to uncover similarities among refugee youth that would have been missed were it not for the exercise in comparison.…
Palestinian Refugee Youth
Palestinian refugee youth living both within and outside of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) camps in the Middle East are the focus of this article. For more than half a century, these youth have been captive for stereotyping, and they have been objectified as passive victims, much as their parents and grandparents before them lived without the benefit of international protection. Yet Palestin…
Women Working in Oman
Middle Eastern women have often been portrayed by Westerners as silent shadows or as helpless victims of suppressive customs and traditions who are unable to organize or form groups on their own and for themselves and are prevented from entering fully into the public sector of life. The past decade, however, has seen an explosion in research and publication that fully acknowledges women as people in their own right. Women in the Middle East have …
Statelessness and Tribal Identity on Lebanon's Eastern Borders
Lebanon's eastern borders are a particularly understudied region of the country. This area is home to a number of refugee communities (Palestinian and Armenian) as well as recently settled and displaced Bedouin from the June 1967 war. This tribal community is both invisible in some regards and prominent in others. Barred from citizenship for many years, the Bedouin community is increasingly playing an active role in Lebanon's political scene whil…
Displaced Iraqis
Much has been written about Iraqi refugees in the eight years since the March 2003 Anglo-American invasion of the country. Most of this work tries to understand the refugee crisis which followed from the perspective of “topdown” governmental and institutional factors such as interstate relations, state fragility, and regional insecurity. The key innovation of this paper is that it explores “bottomup” factors. The focus of this paper is on the per…
Refugee Voices
Settled people have been forced to move and nomads have been coerced into settling for as long as there has been history. Until the emergence of the Westphalian concept of the nation (where the state corresponded to the nation, groups of people united by language and culture), movement and mobility were largely recognized and accommodated. However, most contemporary academic disciplines as well as public institutions adopt a particular sedentist …
The Persistence of Bedouin Identity and Increasing Political Self-Representation in Lebanon and Syria
This paper examines the persistence of tribal identity and authority and the increasingly public self-representation of Bedouin in the Badia of Syria and the Bekaa of Lebanon. It sets out the significant challenges to Bedouin tribal identity and authority over the past three decades. The paper argues that, despite the formal annulling of the Bedouin tribes' legal status in Syrian law in 1958 and the 'silenced' legal status of most Bedouin in Leba…
Bedouin in Lebanon
Rituals of Royalty and the Elaboration of Ceremony in Oman
This article explores the creation and elaboration of certain ceremonials and court rituals in the Sultanate of Oman after the accession of Sultan Qaboos in 1970. It investigates the relationship between the development of these ceremonials and the perception of leadership and authority in the person of the sultan, as well as the development of a sentiment of common nationality. Its ethnographic underpinning is the most remote and marginal of Oma…
Pastoral Tribes in the Middle East and Wildlife Conservation Schemes
Wildlife conservation schemes, which by design set out to protect endangered fauna and flora, have a relatively recent history in northern Arabia. Their philosophical underpinnings, though, stem from a long African colonial and post-independence tradition. In East Africa and elsewhere, pastoral populations were long ago forced off their grazing lands, in order to create parks and sanctuaries for wildlife and tourists (Howell 1987, McCabe et al. 1…
Introduction to Special Issue
The articles presented here in this special issue on Displaced Syria emerged from a workshop held at The Institute of New York University in Abu Dhabi in March 2019. Its aims were to encourage an examination of the perceptions and aspiration of displaced Syrians and practitioners in hosting countries in the Levant, the Gulf, and in Europe with special attention to the voices of the displaced, their reimagining of home and homeland, and the emergi…
Refugees, Exiles, and Other Forced Migrants in the Late Ottoman Empire
Refugee studies rarely address historical matters; yet understanding ideas about sanctuary, refuge, and asylum have long roots in both Western and Eastern history and philosophy. Occasionally the Nansen era of the 1920s is examined or the opening years of, say, the Palestinian refugee crisis is addressed. But by and large the circumstances, experiences, and influences of refugees and exiles in modern history are ignored. This article attempts to …
Mobile Peoples
Five books discussed here represent a broad sweep of studies on peoples who raise herds of domesticated animals and rely as much as possible on natural graze and browse. They are mainly mobile pastoralists rather than settled agriculturalists. Many of the world's pastoralists today find themselves in situations of marginality, economic impoverishment, and cultural vulnerability. The fundamental strength of these peoples is their adaptability, res…
Mobile Peoples and Conservation
In April 2002, nearly thirty experts--social and natural scientists--from around the world attended a five-day conference in the Dana Nature Reserve, Jordan. They came together to address a difficult and sensitive issue: the relationship between mobile indigenous peoples' and conservation. After intensive debate, in which contrasting perspectives were offered, common ground was successfully developed around an agreed statement of principles--the …
Continental Encampment
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 displaced. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of t…
Special Issue Introduction
Academic interest in the study of forced migration as a specific field developed only in the late 20th century. But its conceptual tools had a much earlier incarnation in the United States. In the early 20th century historical linguistic and ethnographic research was being conducted with Native American peoples who had been subjected to massive ethnic cleansings in the preceding two centuries. Much of that early work was with tribes who had been …
Enclosures and Exclusions
L'A. considere la question du role et de la place des peuples indigenes dans des projets de conservation de la flore et de la faune sauvages par la creation de reserves naturelles ou de Parcs nationaux. Il presente deux etudes de cas concernant des populations de pasteurs nomades en Arabie du Nord, et demontre que, dans cette aire geographique, ces projets de conservation continuent a considerer les populations locales comme des obstacles a surmo…
Refuge in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean
After the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in 2003, the European Union became fixated on keeping refugees from the Middle East out of Europe. By 2015, with the mass influx of Syrians, Iraqis, and others, seeking safety across the Balkans, the European response was an extraordinary effort to push back and contain these displaced people within the Eastern Mediterranean region through physical barriers, bilateral agreements, and the establishment of …
William Lancaster (1938-2022)
Displaced Iraqis
Much has been written about Iraqi refugees in the eight years since the March 2003 Anglo-American invasion of the country. Most of this work tries to understand the refugee crisis which followed from the perspective of “topdown” governmental and institutional factors such as interstate relations, state fragility, and regional insecurity. The key innovation of this paper is that it explores “bottomup” factors. The focus of this paper is on the per…
Structuring forces of pastoral nomadism in S.W. Asia (with emphasis on camel pastoral nomadism)
Leaders, Land, and Limousines
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BYZANTIUM AND THE EARLY ISLAMIC CONQUESTS. By WALTER E. KAEGI. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiii, 313pp. 5 maps, 2 pp. of plates. £45.00 (hb). STUDIES IN EARLY MUSLIM JURISPRUDENCE. By NORMAN CALDER. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993. xiv, 257pp. £35.00. GOLDEN ROADS: MIGRATION, PILGRIMAGE AND TRAVEL IN MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN ISLAM. Edited by IAN RICHARD NETTON. Richmond (Surrey), Curzon Press, 1993. xvii, 193pp. £35 (hb), £16.99 (pb). …
Steppes d'Arabies
Women Organized in Groups in the Middle East
Mobile Pastoralists
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REVEALING THE HOLY LAND: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF PALESTINE. By Kathleen Stewart Howe. Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 1997. 144pp. $US 60 (hb), $US 29.95 (pb). THE EMERGENCE OF THE ‘ABBASID AUTOCRACY: THE ‘ABBASID ARMY, KHURASAN AND ADHARBAYJAN. By Fukuzo Amabe, Kyoto University Press, 1995 xi + 322pp. THE BUKHARANS: A DYNASTIC, DIPLOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL HISTORY, 1550–1702. By Audrey Burton. Richmond, Surrey, UK; Curzon Press, 1997; xxxvii …
Organizing Women
Contents: Dawn Chatty, Preface -- Dawn Chatty & Annika Rabo, Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East: Introduction and Overview -- Valentine Moghadam, Women's NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa: Constraints, Opportunities, and Priorities -- Suad Joseph, Shopkeepers and Feminists: The Reproduction of Political Process (Lebanon) -- Seteney Shami, Domesticity Reconfigured: Women in Squatter Areas of Amman (Jordan) -- Eva Evers Ro…
Enclosures and Exclusions
L'A. considere la question du role et de la place des peuples indigenes dans des projets de conservation de la flore et de la faune sauvages par la creation de reserves naturelles ou de Parcs nationaux. Il presente deux etudes de cas concernant des populations de pasteurs nomades en Arabie du Nord, et demontre que, dans cette aire geographique, ces projets de conservation continuent a considerer les populations locales comme des obstacles a surmo…
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THE CITADEL OF CAIRO: A NEW INTERPRETATION OF ROYAL MAMLUK ARCHITECTURE. By Nasser O. Rabbat. Leiden, New York and Köln, E.J. Brill, 1995. 339 pp., 32 Plates, 48 figs. THE MAMLUKS IN EGYPTIAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY. Edited by Thomas Philipp and Ulrich Haarmann. Cambridge, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv + 306 pp., illustrations, L35.00/$59.95. THE OTTOMAN TURKS: AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY. By Justin McC…
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Mobile Pastoralists
Bedouin Economics and the Modern Wage Market
Introduction The Bedouin of Arabia, the nomadic and now mainly seasonally mobile livestock herders of the peninsula have, over the last fifty years, adapted to and adopted many modern technological innovations. These adaptations can be regarded as attempts to keep up with, if not survive, the rapid transformations of the second half of the twentieth century. Despite such efforts, the Bedouin in much of Arabia have been unable to keep up with the …
Reports and Short Notices
Integrating Participation into Research and Consultancy
Conservation projects in the Middle East have recently focused on reintroducing extinct mammals into their former grazing lands. The indigenous human populations in these areas—mainly nomadic pastoralists—have been, until very recently, excluded from any part of the information gathering, planning, implementation and management of such schemes. This intellectual and physical exclusion has resulted in hostility, distrust and occasionally sabotage.…
Women Working in Oman
Middle Eastern women have often been portrayed by Westerners as silent shadows or as helpless victims of suppressive customs and traditions who are unable to organize or form groups on their own and for themselves and are prevented from entering fully into the public sector of life. The past decade, however, has seen an explosion in research and publication that fully acknowledges women as people in their own right. Women in the Middle East have …
Pastoral Tribes in the Middle East and Wildlife Conservation Schemes
Wildlife conservation schemes, which by design set out to protect endangered fauna and flora, have a relatively recent history in northern Arabia. Their philosophical underpinnings, though, stem from a long African colonial and post-independence tradition. In East Africa and elsewhere, pastoral populations were long ago forced off their grazing lands, in order to create parks and sanctuaries for wildlife and tourists (Howell 1987, McCabe et al. 1…
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
Mobile peoples and conservation
Ethnographies of Conservation
Anthropology & History
Mobile Peoples and Conservation
In April 2002, nearly thirty experts--social and natural scientists--from around the world attended a five-day conference in the Dana Nature Reserve, Jordan. They came together to address a difficult and sensitive issue: the relationship between mobile indigenous peoples' and conservation. After intensive debate, in which contrasting perspectives were offered, common ground was successfully developed around an agreed statement of principles--the …
Dana Declaration Supports Mobile Indigenous Peoples' Promotion of New Approach to Conservation at the IUCN 5th World Parks Congress
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
1 Introduction: Conservation And Mobile Indigenous Peoples by Dawn Chatty and Marcus Colchester 2 Negotiating the Tropical Forest: Colonizing Farmers And Lumber Resources In The Ticoporo Reserve by Miguel Montoya 3 Compatibility of Pastoralism and Conservation?: A Test Case Using Integrated Assessment In The Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania by Kathleen A. Galvin, Jim Ellis, Randall B. Boone, Ann L. Magennis, Nicole M. Smith, Stacy J. Lynn a…
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