Continental encampment : genealogies of humanitarian containment in the Middle East and Europe / edited by Are John Knudsen and 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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Knudsen, Are J. (Editor), Berg, Kjersti G. (Kjersti Gravelsæter) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2023.
Series:Humanitarianism and security ; v. 2.
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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.