Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 609295 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh |
| PRENOMES | Elena |
| SOBRENOME | Fiddian-Qasmiyeh |
| ASSINATURA | FIDDIAN-QASMIYEH E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0112-6804 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 482 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Brazil
During forced displacement following war or disasters, foreign states often implement measures to either provide aid and services to displaced people in receiving countries, or allow for refugee resettlement to a third country. In the Middle East context, presently ridden by overlapping human-made conflicts, ‘Southern’ states have mostly engaged with aid provision in indirect ways, financing pre-existing programmes or entities which have already …
The ethical life of spontaneity
Contributing to ongoing debates relating to diverse meanings and practices of humanitarianism, this article traces and examines refugees’ own understandings of ‘humanitarianism’ as spontaneous, informal and volunteer-based acts of disinterested assistance and ‘real generosity’. Such understandings specifically refer to either individually-initiated or collective acts of philanthropy and solidarity characterised by an informal and discrete, ‘undis…
A Manifesto for Bread and Roses
In the midst of the mass displacement, dispossession and systematic killing of Palestinians in Gaza, this manifesto for "bread and roses" centralizes not only the rights of Palestinians in Gaza to life, safety, and security but also displaced people's rights to joy, beauty, and happiness. At a time when Palestinians in Gaza are being massacred and openly deprived of aid, it is, precisely, Palestinians' commitment to joy and beauty being projected…
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
Déplacer le regard
Ce chapitre examine la « relationnalité réfugié-réfugié » à travers le cas du camp de Baddawi au Liban, où des réfugiés palestiniens établis depuis les années 1950 accueillent des personnes déplacées de Syrie. En déplaçant le regard des relations archétypales entre réfugiés et acteurs internationaux vers les relations entre différents groupes de réfugiés, l’analyse révèle des dynamiques complexes de solidarité, d’hospitalité et de tension. Il s’a…
The right and role of critiquing the contemporary patchwork of protection
The 70th anniversary of the 1951 Geneva Convention has been marked by a flurry of powerful academic critiques of the Convention's colonial and Eurocentric roots, and its “intentional” exclusion (Mayblin, 2014) of certain refugees and regions (i.e. see Krause, 2021; White, 2021; longer-standing critiques include Chimni, 1998). Equally, the Convention's anniversary has been characterized by the ongoing flagrant violation of its fundamental legal pr…
Refuge in a Moving World
"Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions written from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement. The volume combines critical reflections on the complexities of conceptualizing processes and experiences of (forced) migration, with detailed analyses of these experiences in contemporary and historical settings arou…
Refugees’ Pandemic Responses in a Palestinian Camp in Lebanon
Palestinian refugee camps, long established in Lebanon, have become havens for people from other nationalities as well, most recently Syrians who fled the civil war. Accustomed to neglect or outright hostility from Lebanese officials, camp residents have come to rely on each other for support. The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched these networks of mutual aid to the limit. This article offers an intimate view of everyday life during the crisis in a…
Migration, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Knowledge
In this interview with Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Juliano Fiori—Head of Studies (Humanitarian Affairs) at Save the Children—reflects on Eurocentrism and coloniality in studies of and responses to migration. In the context of ongoing debates about the politics of knowledge and the urgency of anticolonial action, Fiori discusses the ideological and epistemological bases of responses to migration, the Western character of humanitarianism, the “localiza…
Responding to Precarity
How are refugees responding to protect themselves and others in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic? How do these responses relate to diverse local, national, and international structures of inequality and marginalization? Drawing on the case of Beddawi camp in North Lebanon, I argue that local responses—such as sharing information via print and social media, raising funds for and preparing iftar baskets during Ramadan, and distributing food and s…
The Position of “the South” and “South-South Migration” in Policy and Programmatic Responses to Different Forms of Migration
In this interview with Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Francesco Carella—Labour Migration and Mobility Specialist at the International Labour Organization (ILO) currently covering Central America, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, and previously covering North Africa—reflects on the position of “the South” and “South-South migration” in policy and programmatic responses to different forms of migration. He discusses how and to what effect terms s…
Southern‐Led Faith‐based Responses to Refugees
This chapter examines the relationship between faith‐based responses in the Global South and conceptualizations of humanitarianism, including through an analysis of the roles of faith and religion in responses developed by local faith‐based community groups supporting Syrian refugees in Amman, and Karen refugee evangelical humanitarian relief providers on the Thai‐Myanmar border. In the protracted Myanmar refugee situation, with over 100000 refug…
Looking forward
This paper reflects on contemporary studies of and responses to disasters, highlighting the importance of historical, spatial, and intersectional modes of analysis, and draws on the author's ongoing research on Southern-led and local community responses to displacement in the Middle East. Acknowledging the plurality of 'international communities of response', it begins by critiquing the depiction of selected responses to disasters as 'positive' '…
Routledge Handbook of South–South Relations
South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states, policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means of ‘sharing the burden’ in funding and undertaking development, assistance and protection activities, often in response to increased political and financial pressures on their own aid budgets. However, the mainstreaming of Southern-led initiatives by…
Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations
Inaugural Editorial
Throughout history, migration has been at the heart of the transformation of societies and communities. At the same time, changing dynamics across social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental realms have influenced processes of migration and (im)mobility around the world in different ways, including by facilitating, forcing, preventing, normalizing, criminalizing, and securitizing the movement of diverse people and objects. As academi…
Introduction to the Issue
This introductory article to the inaugural issue of Migration and Society reflects on the complex and often contradictory nature of migration encounters by focusing on diverse dynamics of hospitality and hostility towards migrants around the world and in different historical contexts. Discourses, practices, and policies of hospitality and hostility towards migrants and refugees raise urgent moral, ethical, political, and social questions. Hospita…
Nomads
Nomads rely on movement and mobility as an intrinsic part of their livelihood strategies, moving across different types of territory and for different distances, often consciously or unconsciously crossing international borders. In recent history, the mobility of nomadic people has been viewed as a threat to sociopolitical stability, leading to measures being taken to settle nomadic groups in order to control them and force them to contribute to …
Palestinians and the Arab Uprisings
This article examines the ways in which Palestinians have been affected by the Arab Uprisings and their aftermath, especially in light of their statelessness and protracted refugeedom. It does so by analysing the narratives of 49 Palestinians who were based in France, Sweden, and the UK at the time of interview between 2012 and 2014. We show that the forms of mobilisation and/or identifications that Palestinians in the Middle East and North Afric…
Introduction
This introductory chapter examines the ways in which religion and migration have intersected in scholarship and suggests ways in which studies of these intersections can be enhanced. More specifically, it reviews significant terms and concepts, proposes expanding the scope of research by attending to marginalized perspectives, and creates avenues of dialogue between different methodologies. Bringing together a variety of voices—theologians, relig…
Intersections of Religion and Migration
Embracing Transculturalism and Footnoting Islam in Accounts of Arab Migration to Cuba
This essay traces the development of Cuban analyses of Arab migration to the island from the 1500s to the present. It examines whether there is a specifically ‘Cuban’ school of ‘migration studies’, analysing the nature and implications of Ortiz's concept of transculturation underpinning the postcolonial development of ‘Cuban national identity’. It further argues that, despite official Cuban claims regarding post-revolutionary racial equality, Ara…
Repressentations of Displacement from the Middle East and North Africa
This article draws on research with and about refugees from across the Middle East and North Africa and examines the current Syrian refugee crisis through the tropes of visibility and invisibility. Adopting a deconstructive framework, it purposefully centralizes what has previously been assigned a peripheral position throughout the ever-expanding "archive of knowledge" (following Foucault) vis-à-vis particular refugee situations and critically in…
On the threshold of statelessness
This article examines how Palestinians in Europe negotiate, mobilise, and/or resist, and ultimately problematise, notions of statelessness as a concept and as a marker of identity. Centralising Palestinians' conceptualisations in this manner - including accounts which directly challenge academics' and policy-makers' definitions of the problem of, and solution to, statelessness - is particularly important given that statelessness emerges as both a…
Local Faith Communities and the Promotion of Resilience in Contexts of Humanitarian Crisis
The potential role of local faith communities (LFCs) in promoting resilience in contexts of humanitarian crisis has, despite recent policy interest, been a neglected area of study. This article reports on a structured review of evidence regarding such contributions based on an analysis of 302 publications and reports, supplemented by 11 written submissions from humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and 10 stakeholder interviews. Anal…
The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
This Handbook critically traces the birth and development of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and vividly illustrates the vibrant and engaging debates that characterize this rapidly expanding field of research and practice. The contributions highlight the key challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the world, as well as identifying new directions for research in the field. Si…
Local Faith Communities and the Promotion of Resilience in Contexts of Humanitarian Crisis
The potential role of local faith communities (LFCs) in promoting resilience in contexts of humanitarian crisis has, despite recent policy interest, been a neglected area of study. This article reports on a structured review of evidence regarding such contributions based on an analysis of 302 publications and reports, supplemented by 11 written submissions from humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and 10 stakeholder interviews. Anal…
Introduction
Despite an overall paucity of literature, the relationship between religious identity, belief and practice on the one hand, and processes of forced migration on the other, has received increasing attention in the 2000s. 1 Over the past decade, a number of journals have convened Special Issues which focus on particular dimensions of this relationship. The introductions and contributions to such volumes note the extent to which religion may play a …
Introduction to the Issue
This introductory article to the inaugural issue of Migration and Society reflects on the complex and often contradictory nature of migration encounters by focusing on diverse dynamics of hospitality and hostility towards migrants around the world and in different historical contexts. Discourses, practices, and policies of hospitality and hostility towards migrants and refugees raise urgent moral, ethical, political, and social questions. Hospita…
The Pragmatics of Performance
Since the 1970s, Sahrawi refugees have depended upon humanitarian assistance and political support offered by a variety of secular and faith-based non-governmental organizations. In this article I explore the ways in which Sahrawi refugees' political representatives (the Polisario Front) have mobilized religiously-related claims to maximize diverse short-and long-term benefits both inside and outside the camps. In light of the contemporary geopol…
Repressentations of Displacement from the Middle East and North Africa
This article draws on research with and about refugees from across the Middle East and North Africa and examines the current Syrian refugee crisis through the tropes of visibility and invisibility. Adopting a deconstructive framework, it purposefully centralizes what has previously been assigned a peripheral position throughout the ever-expanding "archive of knowledge" (following Foucault) vis-à-vis particular refugee situations and critically in…
"Ideal" Refugee Women and Gender Equality Mainstreaming in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Executive Committee and the Refugee Women and Gender Equality Unit within the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees have both asserted that the Algerian-based National Union of Sahrawi Women is an "ideal" partner by virtue of its success in mainstreaming gender equality and empowering Sahrawi refugee women. In this article, I examine the nature and implications of this idealization of the …
Refugee and Diaspora Memories
This special issue opens up a conversation between three multidisciplinary fields: memory studies, diaspora studies and refugee studies. The introductory paper articulates an analytical framework addressing various forms of memories of displacement. It defines the concepts of exilic and diasporic memories with regard to the classical and post-modern conceptions of diasporas and shows, beyond their formal opposition, the extent to which these two …
On the threshold of statelessness
This article examines how Palestinians in Europe negotiate, mobilise, and/or resist, and ultimately problematise, notions of statelessness as a concept and as a marker of identity. Centralising Palestinians' conceptualisations in this manner - including accounts which directly challenge academics' and policy-makers' definitions of the problem of, and solution to, statelessness - is particularly important given that statelessness emerges as both a…
The Inter-generational Politics of 'Travelling Memories
Drawing on primary research conducted with Sahrawi children and youth in the Sahrawi refugee camps, Cuba, Spain and Syria between 2001 and 2009, this article explores the Sahrawi politics of ‘travelling memories’, assessing how, why and to what effect memories of both the Western Saharan home-land and of the Algerian-based home-camps ‘travel’ between older and younger generations and across geographies in contexts of ongoing mobility. I start by …
Muslim Asylum-Seekers and Refugees
In the current geopolitical context, religion, nationality and country of origin have increasingly become intertwined and politicized in relation to asylum, both as policy and as personal experience. Based on interviews conducted in the UK with a range of Middle Eastern Muslim asylum-seekers and refugees, this article proposes that regional and religious identity markers have grown to dictate interactions, be they real or imagined, with the host …
Palestinians and the Arab Uprisings
This article examines the ways in which Palestinians have been affected by the Arab Uprisings and their aftermath, especially in light of their statelessness and protracted refugeedom. It does so by analysing the narratives of 49 Palestinians who were based in France, Sweden, and the UK at the time of interview between 2012 and 2014. We show that the forms of mobilisation and/or identifications that Palestinians in the Middle East and North Afric…
Education, migration and internationalism
Since the 1970s, thousands of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) students have been amongst the 40,000 recipients of a free education at universities and other further education institutions in Cuba. Drawing on interviews conducted with Muslim MENA university students in Cuba, including both citizens and refugees, I suggest that their legal statuses played central roles during their time in the Caribbean island, as well as structuring their …
Transnational childhood and adolescence
This paper proposes the importance of examining not only how and when diasporas are mobilized by political brokers, but also which members of diasporic populations are strategically engaged both according to their own characteristics (including their age) and the nature of their diasporic hosting context. It explores how Sahrawi refugee children and youth in the Algeria-based Sahrawi refugee camps, Cuba, Syria and in Spain have been mobilized by …
Responding to Precarity
How are refugees responding to protect themselves and others in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic? How do these responses relate to diverse local, national, and international structures of inequality and marginalization? Drawing on the case of Beddawi camp in North Lebanon, I argue that local responses—such as sharing information via print and social media, raising funds for and preparing iftar baskets during Ramadan, and distributing food and s…
Paradoxes of Sahrawi refugees' educational migration
Education is often prioritised by refugee children and families, as well as by their political representatives and international actors alike. This article explores the specificities of the Sahrawi refugee education system, focusing in particular on the nature, motivations and implications of Sahrawi refugee youths' educational migration to Cuba through a scholarship programme designed to promote self-sufficiency and socio-economic development in…
Representing Sahrawi Refugees' 'Educational Displacement' to Cuba
Mainstream accounts of refugee women and children have habitually portrayed their objects of study as ‘generic’ passive victims of war and/or famine. In stark contrast, however, since the early 1980s Sahrawi refugee women and children have been invoked as active agents constructing and maintaining their camps. In the first part of this article I explore the nature of a selection of mutually-reinforcing images produced by the Polisario Front (the …
Looking forward
This paper reflects on contemporary studies of and responses to disasters, highlighting the importance of historical, spatial, and intersectional modes of analysis, and draws on the author's ongoing research on Southern-led and local community responses to displacement in the Middle East. Acknowledging the plurality of 'international communities of response', it begins by critiquing the depiction of selected responses to disasters as 'positive' '…
Inaugural Editorial
Throughout history, migration has been at the heart of the transformation of societies and communities. At the same time, changing dynamics across social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental realms have influenced processes of migration and (im)mobility around the world in different ways, including by facilitating, forcing, preventing, normalizing, criminalizing, and securitizing the movement of diverse people and objects. As academi…
The right and role of critiquing the contemporary patchwork of protection
The 70th anniversary of the 1951 Geneva Convention has been marked by a flurry of powerful academic critiques of the Convention's colonial and Eurocentric roots, and its “intentional” exclusion (Mayblin, 2014) of certain refugees and regions (i.e. see Krause, 2021; White, 2021; longer-standing critiques include Chimni, 1998). Equally, the Convention's anniversary has been characterized by the ongoing flagrant violation of its fundamental legal pr…
Histories of displacement
This article examines the Spanish–Sahrawi colonial encounter from the perspective of 41 Spaniards who lived and/or worked in Spain's North African colony (formerly known as the Spanish Sahara and currently known as the Western Sahara) during the late-colonial era (1960s–1970s). An analysis of informants' experiences in the colony suggests the importance of a selection of social and spatial divisions that characterised life in the territory. With …
The Position of “the South” and “South-South Migration” in Policy and Programmatic Responses to Different Forms of Migration
In this interview with Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Francesco Carella—Labour Migration and Mobility Specialist at the International Labour Organization (ILO) currently covering Central America, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, and previously covering North Africa—reflects on the position of “the South” and “South-South migration” in policy and programmatic responses to different forms of migration. He discusses how and to what effect terms s…
Relocating
Refugees’ experiences of living in non-Western urban settings are infrequently addressed outside those particular cities. This essay presents snapshots of refugees’ experiences of asylum in one such city, Cairo, where it is UNHCR which undertakes the refugee status determination process. Following a presentation of the main institutional actors involved in Cairo's ‘asylum scene’, it outlines some of the ‘general’ and ‘normal’ problems, vulnerabil…
Transnational abductions and transnational responsibilities? The politics of ‘protecting’ female Muslim refugees abducted from Spain
This article examines evolving gendered protection narratives surrounding four ‘abduction’ cases in which Sahrawi refugee girls and young women living in Spain were ‘abducted’ by their birth-families and forcibly returned to the Algerian-based Sahrawi refugee camps between 2002 and 2009. By exploring Spanish state and civil society responses to these girls' ‘abductions’, I argue that there has been a major shift in the ways in which legitimate re…
The Ethics of Migration Research Methodology
The impetus for this collection arose from two workshops entitled ‘Human smuggling/trafficking seen from inside’ and ‘Interviewing vulnerable migrants for different reasons and with different purposes’ held at the 2004 and 2005 International Metropolis Conferences respectively. Following an introduction by the editors, the contributions are divided in three sections. The first consists of two chapters which address ethical and methodological ques…
Mobility and the Care of Sahrawi Refugee Youth
Relocating
Refugees’ experiences of living in non-Western urban settings are infrequently addressed outside those particular cities. This essay presents snapshots of refugees’ experiences of asylum in one such city, Cairo, where it is UNHCR which undertakes the refugee status determination process. Following a presentation of the main institutional actors involved in Cairo's ‘asylum scene’, it outlines some of the ‘general’ and ‘normal’ problems, vulnerabil…
Representing Sahrawi Refugees' 'Educational Displacement' to Cuba
Mainstream accounts of refugee women and children have habitually portrayed their objects of study as ‘generic’ passive victims of war and/or famine. In stark contrast, however, since the early 1980s Sahrawi refugee women and children have been invoked as active agents constructing and maintaining their camps. In the first part of this article I explore the nature of a selection of mutually-reinforcing images produced by the Polisario Front (the …
"Ideal" Refugee Women and Gender Equality Mainstreaming in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Executive Committee and the Refugee Women and Gender Equality Unit within the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees have both asserted that the Algerian-based National Union of Sahrawi Women is an "ideal" partner by virtue of its success in mainstreaming gender equality and empowering Sahrawi refugee women. In this article, I examine the nature and implications of this idealization of the …
Muslim Asylum-Seekers and Refugees
In the current geopolitical context, religion, nationality and country of origin have increasingly become intertwined and politicized in relation to asylum, both as policy and as personal experience. Based on interviews conducted in the UK with a range of Middle Eastern Muslim asylum-seekers and refugees, this article proposes that regional and religious identity markers have grown to dictate interactions, be they real or imagined, with the host …
Education, migration and internationalism
Since the 1970s, thousands of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) students have been amongst the 40,000 recipients of a free education at universities and other further education institutions in Cuba. Drawing on interviews conducted with Muslim MENA university students in Cuba, including both citizens and refugees, I suggest that their legal statuses played central roles during their time in the Caribbean island, as well as structuring their …
The Pragmatics of Performance
Since the 1970s, Sahrawi refugees have depended upon humanitarian assistance and political support offered by a variety of secular and faith-based non-governmental organizations. In this article I explore the ways in which Sahrawi refugees' political representatives (the Polisario Front) have mobilized religiously-related claims to maximize diverse short-and long-term benefits both inside and outside the camps. In light of the contemporary geopol…
The Ethics of Migration Research Methodology
The impetus for this collection arose from two workshops entitled ‘Human smuggling/trafficking seen from inside’ and ‘Interviewing vulnerable migrants for different reasons and with different purposes’ held at the 2004 and 2005 International Metropolis Conferences respectively. Following an introduction by the editors, the contributions are divided in three sections. The first consists of two chapters which address ethical and methodological ques…
Introduction
Despite an overall paucity of literature, the relationship between religious identity, belief and practice on the one hand, and processes of forced migration on the other, has received increasing attention in the 2000s. 1 Over the past decade, a number of journals have convened Special Issues which focus on particular dimensions of this relationship. The introductions and contributions to such volumes note the extent to which religion may play a …
Paradoxes of Sahrawi refugees' educational migration
Education is often prioritised by refugee children and families, as well as by their political representatives and international actors alike. This article explores the specificities of the Sahrawi refugee education system, focusing in particular on the nature, motivations and implications of Sahrawi refugee youths' educational migration to Cuba through a scholarship programme designed to promote self-sufficiency and socio-economic development in…
Histories of displacement
This article examines the Spanish–Sahrawi colonial encounter from the perspective of 41 Spaniards who lived and/or worked in Spain's North African colony (formerly known as the Spanish Sahara and currently known as the Western Sahara) during the late-colonial era (1960s–1970s). An analysis of informants' experiences in the colony suggests the importance of a selection of social and spatial divisions that characterised life in the territory. With …
Invisible Refugees and/or Overlapping Refugeedom? Protecting Sahrawis and Palestinians Displaced by the 2011 Libyan Uprising
This article examines the experiences of two North African and Middle Eastern refugee populations (Sahrawis and Palestinians) affected by the 2011 conflict in Libya who have remained largely invisible to the international community. The challenges that they have faced since the outbreak of violence in February 2011, and the nature of international responses to these challenges, highlight a range of interconnected issues on both conceptual and pra…
Transnational abductions and transnational responsibilities? The politics of ‘protecting’ female Muslim refugees abducted from Spain
This article examines evolving gendered protection narratives surrounding four ‘abduction’ cases in which Sahrawi refugee girls and young women living in Spain were ‘abducted’ by their birth-families and forcibly returned to the Algerian-based Sahrawi refugee camps between 2002 and 2009. By exploring Spanish state and civil society responses to these girls' ‘abductions’, I argue that there has been a major shift in the ways in which legitimate re…
The Inter-generational Politics of 'Travelling Memories
Drawing on primary research conducted with Sahrawi children and youth in the Sahrawi refugee camps, Cuba, Spain and Syria between 2001 and 2009, this article explores the Sahrawi politics of ‘travelling memories’, assessing how, why and to what effect memories of both the Western Saharan home-land and of the Algerian-based home-camps ‘travel’ between older and younger generations and across geographies in contexts of ongoing mobility. I start by …
Refugee and Diaspora Memories
This special issue opens up a conversation between three multidisciplinary fields: memory studies, diaspora studies and refugee studies. The introductory paper articulates an analytical framework addressing various forms of memories of displacement. It defines the concepts of exilic and diasporic memories with regard to the classical and post-modern conceptions of diasporas and shows, beyond their formal opposition, the extent to which these two …
Transnational childhood and adolescence
This paper proposes the importance of examining not only how and when diasporas are mobilized by political brokers, but also which members of diasporic populations are strategically engaged both according to their own characteristics (including their age) and the nature of their diasporic hosting context. It explores how Sahrawi refugee children and youth in the Algeria-based Sahrawi refugee camps, Cuba, Syria and in Spain have been mobilized by …
Forced Migration in Southern Africa
This chapter outlines five phases of displacement in the ‘fifty years war’ of Southern Africa, from the wars of independence of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s to the mass exodus of people from Zimbabwe and mass deportations of migrants, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, and refugees to other states. It first provides an overview of pre-colonial and colonial forced migration and periodizes the five-decade war from 1960 to the present. It …
Gender and Forced Migration
This chapter examines the role of gender in displacement, focusing on women’s and men’s experiences and the different ways in which gender identities, roles, and relations are influenced by processes of and responses to forced migration. It begins with a brief historical overview of feminist and gendered analyses of forced migration. It then explores the causes and experiences of forced migration by drawing on gendered evaluations of individualiz…
Forced Migration in West Africa
This chapter examines the regional dynamics of different types of forced displacement in West Africa, focusing on conflict-induced displacements, forced expulsions and ‘mixed migration’ in a historical perspective. It discusses the politics and practices of asylum in the region and highlights some of the unintended effects of a West African ‘protection’ regime in terms of labelling processes, the intensification of certain conflicts, and the emer…
The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
This Handbook critically traces the birth and development of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and vividly illustrates the vibrant and engaging debates that characterize this rapidly expanding field of research and practice. The contributions highlight the key challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the world, as well as identifying new directions for research in the field. Si…
Local Faith Communities and the Promotion of Resilience in Contexts of Humanitarian Crisis
The potential role of local faith communities (LFCs) in promoting resilience in contexts of humanitarian crisis has, despite recent policy interest, been a neglected area of study. This article reports on a structured review of evidence regarding such contributions based on an analysis of 302 publications and reports, supplemented by 11 written submissions from humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and 10 stakeholder interviews. Anal…
Introduction
This introductory chapter examines the ways in which religion and migration have intersected in scholarship and suggests ways in which studies of these intersections can be enhanced. More specifically, it reviews significant terms and concepts, proposes expanding the scope of research by attending to marginalized perspectives, and creates avenues of dialogue between different methodologies. Bringing together a variety of voices—theologians, relig…
Intersections of Religion and Migration
Embracing Transculturalism and Footnoting Islam in Accounts of Arab Migration to Cuba
This essay traces the development of Cuban analyses of Arab migration to the island from the 1500s to the present. It examines whether there is a specifically ‘Cuban’ school of ‘migration studies’, analysing the nature and implications of Ortiz's concept of transculturation underpinning the postcolonial development of ‘Cuban national identity’. It further argues that, despite official Cuban claims regarding post-revolutionary racial equality, Ara…
Repressentations of Displacement from the Middle East and North Africa
This article draws on research with and about refugees from across the Middle East and North Africa and examines the current Syrian refugee crisis through the tropes of visibility and invisibility. Adopting a deconstructive framework, it purposefully centralizes what has previously been assigned a peripheral position throughout the ever-expanding "archive of knowledge" (following Foucault) vis-à-vis particular refugee situations and critically in…
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