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Refugee Reception and Camps

Local and Global Perspectives

Edited by Lucas Oesch and Léa Lemaire

Published

Sep 1, 2025

Page count

304 pages

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Global Migration and Social Change

ISBN

978-1529222838

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Sep 1, 2025

Page count

304 pages

Browse the series

Global Migration and Social Change

ISBN

978-1529222845

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Sep 1, 2025

Page count

304 pages

Browse the series

Global Migration and Social Change

ISBN

978-1529222852

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press
Refugee Reception and Camps

Lucas Oesch is Scientific Officer at Université de Neuchâtel. Previously, he was Principle Investigator for the REFUGOV research project on refugee reception in Luxembourg and Jordan.

Léa Lemaire is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg where she oversaw the REFUGOV research project on refugee reception in Luxembourg and Jordan.

Introduction: A local and global perspective on refugee reception and camps - Lucas Oesch and Léa Lemaire

Setting the scene: Refugee reception and the challenge of ‘the local’ - Jonathan Darling

Part 1: Camps and their relations with cities

Between the exceptional and the ordinary: The local turn and the camp in South Asia - Ankur data

The local governance of informal refugee camps in Lebanon – from Palestinian ‘gatherings’ to Syrian ‘settlements’ - Nora Stel

The governance of migrant reception and more-than-local stories in a Costa Rican border town - Elena Reichl and Nanneke Winters

Unrelated spaces? Camps and cities in Jordan and Luxembourg - Lucas Oesch & Léa Lemaire

Carceral urbanism and spaces of non-care: Australia’s use of alternative places of detention, 2002-2022 - Andrew Burridge

Part 2: Camps and the provision of care

The Rohingya camp jurisdiction puzzle: How fractured jurisdiction impacts humanitarian aid provision by local, international and governmental actors - Yasmin Khan

Understanding safe houses: Serbia’s geographies of reception and care of unaccompanied - Jessica Collins and Claudio Minca

From barbed wire to welcome signs: The US military both welcomes and deters people seeking refuge in the United States - Erin Barbato

‘Bienvenue dans La Bulle’: Politics and paradoxes in an experimental dispositif of migration reception in Paris - Melora Koepke

Who cares? Practices and meanings of care in refugee camps around the world. From Moria to Kakuma - Claudia Böhme

Part 3: Camps as economic resources

How do camps affect cities? The political economy of refugee camps and Arua, Uganda - Evan Easton‐Calabria

Humanitarian governance as development: Protracted refugee camps as drivers of investment and innovation in Kenya and Jordan - Bram J. Jansen

Migration governance and uneven development? Economic actors, practices and geographies of migrant camps in Greece - Panos Hatziprokopiou

Forced migration as urban development: Berlin’s accommodation approach and the development of sheltering as the new urban norm - René Kreichauf

Conclusion: Future perspectives in research on and practice of refugee reception and camps from the local to the global - Lucas Oesch and Léa Lemaire