Refugee Reception and Camps

Lucas Oesch is Scientific Officer at the University of Neuchâtel. He was previously based at the University of Luxembourg where he directed the REFUGOV research project on refugee reception in Luxembourg and Jordan.Léa Lemaire is Associate Researcher at Mesopolhis, Aix-Marseille University and at REPI, Université libre de Bruxelles. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg where she managed the REFUGOV research project on refugee reception in Luxembourg and Jordan.

‘This vital collection offers rare, incisive insights into the entangled local and global dynamics shaping refugee camps within a uniquely global frame.’ Paolo Novak, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London

• 1. Introduction: A Local and Global Perspective on Refugee Reception and Camps - Lucas Oesch and Léa Lemaire 2. Setting the Scene: Refugee Reception and the Challenge of ‘the Local’ - Jonathan Darling Part 1: Camps and Their Relations with Cities3. Local Governance of/through Informal Refugee Camps: Revisiting Lebanon’s Palestinian and Syrian ‘Gatherings’ - Nora Stel4. Unrelated spaces? Camps and cities in Jordan and Luxembourg - Léa Lemaire and Lucas Oesch 5. Between the Exceptional and the Ordinary: The Local Turn and the Camp in South Asia - Ankur Datta 6. Welcome to the Bubble: Governing the Parisian ‘Migration Crisis’ from the Street to the Centre de premier accueil - Melora KoepkePart 2: Camps and the Provision of Care7. The Governance of Migrant Reception and More-Than-Local Stories in Southern Costa Rica - Elena Reichl and Nanneke Winters8. Camps and Safe Houses: Serbia’s Local Geographies of Reception and Care for Unaccompanied Refugee Children - Jessica Collins-Bojovic and Claudio Minca9. An Unlikely Host in Humanitarian Reception: Fort McCoy during Operation Allies Welcome in the US - Erin Barbato 10. Non-Care in the Detention Hotel: 20 Years of Australia’s use of ‘Alternative Places of Detention’ - Andrew Burridge Part 3: Camps as Economic Resources 11. How Do Camps Affect Cities? The Political Economy of Refugee Camps and Arua, Uganda - Evan Easton‐Calabria 12. Refugee Accommodation Industries: Migration Governance, Profit and City Making - René Kreichauf13. Humanitarian Governance as Development: Protracted Refugee Camps as Drivers of Investment and Innovation in Refugee-Hosting Regions - Bram J. Jansen14. Providing Hospitality to Asylum Seekers: Exploring the Tension between Tourism and Refugee Accommodation in Austria’s Migration System through Visual Research - Nina Valerie Kolowratnik and Johannes Pointl