Local Community Experiences of Displacement from Syria: Views from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey
Between 10th - 15th March, the P21 Gallery in Somers Town, London will be hosting a spatial installation, Space of Refuge, which has emerged out of extensive fieldwork by Samar Maqusi, a PhD student at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), who has also contributed to the Refugee Hosts blog (see here and here). Samar's research in Lebanon and Jordan investigates…
In this piece, which is a re-posting from the Asymptote blog, Theophilus Kwek interviews the Refugee Hosts writer in residence Yousif M. Qasmiyeh about his work, and the themes of displacement, exile and belonging that inform his poetry and writing. Read Yousif's poetry for the Refugee Hosts project here. Q&A with Yousif M. Qasmiyeh By…
On 20 February, UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies hosted renowned novelist and critic Prof. Abdulrazak Gurnah to explore the roles of narration and storytelling in the context of migration and displacement (a key theme for our Refugee Hosts project). Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novels – including Memories of Departure (1987), Pilgrims Way (1988), Dottie (1990), Paradise (1994), Admiring Silence (1996),…
READ CHAPTER ONE HERE. This is chapter two of Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami's three part re-imagination of the classic children's story Alice in Wonderland, told this time from the perspective of Alice the refugee. In this chapter, we are told of the perilous journey Alice has to take to Europe, across the Aegean Sea. This is a story of…
It is often assumed that local community responses to displacement are characterised by the exclusion of certain groups of refugees from assistance, an assumption that our Refugee Hosts is examining through research with refugees and hosts in 9 local communities in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. Such processes of inclusion and exclusion are also, of course, a central feature of…
The UCL Migration Research Unit (MRU) has recently published a call for papers for their sixth annual student conference, due to take place on the 9 June 2017 in UCL, London. A brief description of this exciting event, which explores a number of themes and questions relevant to the Refugee Hosts project, can be read below: …
In this piece, the first of three chapters, Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami takes us down the Rabbit Hole in a re-imagination of the classic children's story Alice in Wonderland, told this time from the perspective of Alice the refugee. Torn from her homeland by conflict and war, Alice embarks on the long journey across Europe. This is…
This morning, Refugee Hosts Co-I Prof. Lyndsey Stonebridge discussed Hannah Arendt alongside Frisbee Sheffield and Robert Eagleton on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. The full programme can be listened to here. The discussion helped to bring out the relevance of Arendt's work in today's political environment. This is especially true when it comes to issues relating to displacement, citizenship…
For any UCL students and staff, be sure to join us at this Refugee Theatre Workshop, taking place on the 6 February at UCL from 14:00-16:00 in the Common Ground room, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL. The workshop is led by the UCL Geography Department's Leverhulme Artist in Residence Tom Bailey, the UCL Migration Research Unit,…
In this new piece, Refugee Hosts’ Co-Investigator Dr. Anna Rowlands reflects on the ways in which Hannah Arendt can help us better understand local community responses to displacement. In the context of our Refugee Hosts project, such a reflection leads us to ask: How can we collectively work towards promoting modes of governance, responsibility and…
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