Local Community Experiences of Displacement from Syria: Views from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey
In this post, Refugee Hosts Researcher, Leonie Harsch discusses a soundscape recorded in Hamra, Beirut and reflects on the ethical considerations associated with producing and disseminating recordings of displacement and its responses. You can listen to the soundscape that accompanies this post below. If you found this piece of interest, you can visit further soundscapes…
On the 25th and 26th of October 2019, Refugee Hosts’ International Conference, ‘Without Exception: The Politics and Poetics of Local Responses to Displacement’ sold out to an international audience who joined us both in person and via live stream. Here we mark the conversations that took place and invite further conversations relating to ‘without exception’, a…
One of our project’s aims has been to disrupt mainstream humanitarian narratives which have traditionally represented, and therefore constituted, refugees as individual suffering victims, passive recipients of aid and/or as unique ‘ideal’ refugees who are truly worthy of international sympathy, assistance, and protection. By disrupting these and other established narratives and representational strategies, we have ultimately aimed to document, trace…
Photography has played a key role throughout the Refugee Hosts project, not only ‘documenting’ (or ‘archiving’) the dynamics taking place across the camps, cities and towns in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey where we have been conducting research, but also as a means of reflecting on the process of research itself. Many of these images have…
On the 25th and 26th of October 2019, Refugee Hosts’ International Conference, ‘Without Exception: The Politics and Poetics of Local Responses to Displacement’ sold out to an international audience who joined us both in person and via live stream. Here we mark the conversations that took place and invite further conversations relating to ‘without exception’, a…
The Refugee Hosts project is delighted to launch a new report titled “Religion and Social Justice for Refugees: Insights from Cameroon, Greece, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia and Mexico”. This report identifies and examines the roles that faith plays in supporting social justice for refugees. READ THE REPORT HERE This major report, made possible through the generous…
This presentation was given by Bayan Itani at the Refugee Hosts International Conference. The presentation addressed empathy as a common motivation for supporting Syrian refugees. In so doing, it questions the ‘borderlines’ of empathy, and the reasons behind its decline, within the context of people from Syria seeking refuge in Lebanon. The borderlines of empathy by…
This panel was hosted at the Refugee Hosts International Conference on the 24th October 2019, from 15:00-16:30 Chair: Prof Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow) Bayan Itani (Refugee Hosts) Dr Estella Carpi (Southern Responses to Displacement, UCL) Dr Ann Christin Wagner (University of Edinburgh) Dr Karen Lauterbach (University of Copenhagen) You can watch the live stream…
Join the Conversation on Twitter: #RHIC19 #PoliticsAndPoetics @refugeehosts Day 1. 24th October 2019 9.30 – 10.00 Registration and refreshments 10.00 – 10.15 Welcome and Introduction Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts – UCL) 10.15 – 11.00 Distinguished Keynote Prof. Homi Bhabha (Harvard University) 11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break 11.15 – 12.45 …
‘There can be no question that the background of the researcher affects what and whom s/he can access for research purposes’ argues local Refugee Hosts researcher, Bayan Itani as she reflects on her experiences of completing fieldwork in the local neighbourhood of Hamra, in the capital city of Lebanon, Beirut. Itani reflects on how her own…
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