Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter by Scott-Smith, Tom

Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter

Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have...
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Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter by Scott-Smith, Tom

Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter

CHF 58.54

Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter

CHF 58.54
Author: Tom Scott-Smith
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decade. The story of international migration is often told through personal odysseys and dangerous journeys, but when people arrive at their destinations a more mundane task begins: refugees need a place to stay. Governments and charities have adopted a range of strategies in response to this need. Some have sequestered refugees in massive camps of glinting metal. Others have hosted them in renovated office blocks and disused warehouses. They often end up in prefabricated shelters flown in from abroad.

This book focuses on seven examples of emergency shelter, from Germany to Jordan, which emerged after the great "summer of migration" in 2015. Drawing on detailed ethnographic research into these shelters, the book reflects on their political implications and opens up much bigger questions about humanitarian action. By exploring how aid agencies and architects approached this basic human need, Tom Scott-Smith demonstrates how shelter has many elements that are hard to reconcile or combine; shelter is always partial and incomplete, producing mere fragments of home. Ultimately, he argues that current approaches to emergency shelter have led to destructive forms of paternalism and concludes that the principle of autonomy can offer a more fruitful approach to sensitive and inclusive housing.



Author: Tom Scott-Smith
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 09/03/2024
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781503640283

About the Author
Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford. He is the author of On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief (2020).

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