Publications

One of the main aims of the Refugee Hosts research project has been ‘to reframe debates about the roles and experiences of local communities and refugees in contexts of conflict-induced displacement.’ Drawing on over 450 interviews and a series of participatory research workshops with local community members and refugees, Refugee Hosts’ team members have published widely, with many publications available Open Access and free to download.

You can read about the project’s main findings in our five thematic Research Briefs:

In addition to the blogs published as part of our ‘community of conversation’ on the Refugee Hosts website, you can read key publications relating to the Refugee Hosts project here: 

Books published:

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (Ed) (2020) Refuge in a Moving World. Tracing refugee and migrant journeys across the humanities. London: UCL Press. (free to download)

Qasmiyeh, Y. M. (2021) Writing the Camp. Wales: Broken Sleep Books. Highly Commended by the 2021 Forward Prizes; selected as one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The Telegraph and The Irish Times.

Farrier, D. Wooley, A. Stonebridge, L. Durrant, S and Cox, E.  (Eds) (2019) Refugee Imaginaries:  Research across the humanities. Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University Press

Stonebridge, L. (2020) Writing and Righting. Literature in the Age of Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Journal Special Issues:

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Berg, M.L. and Waters, J. (Eds) (2020) ‘Recentering the South in Studies of Migration,’ Migration and Society Volume 3: Issue 1.

Berg, M. L. & Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (Eds) (2018) ‘Hospitality and Hostility Towards Migrants: Global Perspectives‘ Migration and Society Volume 1: Issue 1

Reports:

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Grewal, Z., Karunakara, U., Greatrick, A., Ager, A., Lombard, L., Panter-Brick, C., Stonebridge, L., Rowlands, A. (2020) Religion and Social Justice for Refugees: Insights from Cameroon, Greece, Malaysia, Mexico, Jordan and Lebanon (Bridging Voices report to the British Council)

Refugee Hosts (2018), Local Faith Community Responses to Displacement in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey: Emerging Evidence and New Approaches, (UCL Migration Research Unit, authored by Greatrick, A., Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Ager, A., Rowlands, A. and Stonebridge, L.) 

A selection of team members’ recent open-access and academic publications are included below:

Alastair Ager:

Alastair’s blogs posts drawing on Refugee Hosts project research can be found here.

Ager, A. and Ager, J. (2016) Faith, Secularism and Humanitarian Engagement. YouTube video of Alastair’s presentation at Columbia University, September 2016. Watch it here.

Ager, A. (2016) ‘Scotland helps migrants as they face a nightmare,’ The Scotsman, 20 September 2016.

Ager, A. and Ager, J. (2015) Faith, Secularism and Humanitarian Engagement. New York: Palgrave.

Ager, J., Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Ager, A. (2015) ‘Local Faith Communities and the Promotion of Resilience in Contexts of Humanitarian Crisis,‘ Journal of Refugee Studies, 28 (2): 202- 221. *Selected by OUP as one of 6 “highly cited articles” to showcase “the impressive body of research” published in the OUP Journal of Refugee Studies.

Ager, A. and El-Nakib, A (2015) Local Faith Community and Related Civil Society Engagement in Humanitarian Response with Syrian Refugees in Irbid, Jordan, A report to the Henry Luce Foundation, New York: Columbia University.

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh:

Elena’s blogs posts, radio and TV appearances, presentations and lectures drawing on Refugee Hosts project research can be seen here.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2021) The right and role of critiquing the contemporary patchwork of protection The Journal of International Migration, Volume 59, Issue 4. p. 261-264

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. & Qasmiyeh, Y. M. (2020) Refugees’ Pandemic Responses in a Palestinian Camp in Lebanon Current History, Volume 119, Issue 821 p. 349-355

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2020) Responding to Precarity: Beddawi Camp in the Era of Covid-19 The Journal of Palestine Studies, Volume 49, Issue 4. p. 27-35.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2019) ‘Looking Forward: Disasters at 40,’ Disasters, 43(S1):S36-S60 (Open Access here).

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2019) “From Roots to Rhizomes: mapping rhizomatic strategies in the Sahrawi and Palestinian refugee situations,” in Bradley, M., Milner, J. and Peruniak, B. (eds) Shaping the struggles of their times: Refugees, peacebuilding and resolving displacement. Georgetown University Press ( 2019).

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2019) “Memories and Meanings of Camps (and more-than-camps),” in Farrier, D., Woolley, A., Stonebridge, L., Durrant, S. and Cox, E. (eds) Refugee Imaginaries: Contemporary Research Across the Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2019)

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2018) UNRWA Financial Crisis: The Impact on Palestinian Employees 

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2018) Palestinian refugees lament as Trump funding cuts create job insecurity and a pension crisis, The Conversation, 26 March 2018

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2017) ‘Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon face an uncertain 2017,’ The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2017

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Lewis, C. and Cole, G. (2017) “‘Faithing’ Gender and Responses to Violence in Refugee Communities,” in Krause, U. and Buckley-Zistel, S. (eds) Gender, Violence and Forced Migration. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016)  ‘Palestinian and Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Sharing Space, Electricity and the Sky,’ Refugee History, 21 Dec. 2016.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘Refugee-Refugee Relations in Contexts of Overlapping Displacement,’International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, ‘Spotlight On’ The Urban Refugee “Crisis”. 25 Nov. 2016.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘Hospitality and Hostility: The roles of established refugees in a crisis.’ YouTube video of Elena’s UCL Lunch Hour Lecture, 1 Nov. 2016. Watch it here.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘Refugees Hosting Refugees‘, Forced Migration Review, 53: 25-27. 28 September 2016. Read here or listen to audio here.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘Repressentations of Displacement in the Middle East,’ Public Culture, 28(3).

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Qasmiyeh, Y. M. (2016) ‘Refugee Neighbours and Hostipitality: Exploring the complexities of refugee-refugee humanitarianism,’ The Critique, 5 January 2016.

Gabiam, N. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘Palestinians and the Arab Uprisings: Political Activism and Narratives of Home, Homeland and Home-Camp’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2016.1202750

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) “The faith-gender-asylum nexus: an intersectionalist analysis of representations of the ‘Refugee Crisis’,” in Mavelli, L. and Wilson, E. K. (eds) The Refugee Crisis and Religion. Rowman and Littlefield.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (ed) (2016) Gender, Religion and Humanitarian Responses to Refugees, MRU Policy Brief.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘On the Threshold of Statelessness: Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure,’ Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39(2): 301-321.

Saunders, J., Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Snyder, S. (eds) (2016) Intersections of Religion and Migration: Issues at the Global Crossroads, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Saunders, J., Snyder, S. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) “Introduction: Articulating Intersections at the Global Crossroads of Religion and Migration,” in Saunders, J., Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Snyder, S. (eds) Intersections of Religion and Migration: Issues at the Global Crossroads, New York: Palgrave.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2015) ‘Refugees helping refugees: how a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon is welcoming Syrians,’ The Conversation, 4 November 2015.

Yousif M. Qasmiyeh

Qasmiyeh, Y. M., Huq Omi, S. (2021) The Self and Other in Isolation: An Interview with Saiful Huq Omi, followed by The Human that Is Lacking: A response to Saiful Huq Omi’s photograph, Migration and Society, Berghan Journals, June, 2021

Qasmiyeh, Y. M. 2019. “To Embroider the Voice with Its Own Needle.” Berghahn Books blog, January. https://berghahnbooks.com/blog/to-embroider-the-voice-with-its-own-needle.

Stonebridge, L. and Qasmiyeh, Y. M. (2018) ‘The Camp as Archive’, Politics/Letters Live, February 2018.

Qasmiyeh, Y.M., Ammann, O. (2017) The Multiple Faces of Representation

Stonebridge, L. and Qasmiyeh, Y. M. (2017) Time Machine: Stereoscopic Views from Palestine, 1900

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Qasmiyeh, Y. M. (2016) ‘Refugee Neighbours and Hostipitality: Exploring the complexities of refugee-refugee humanitarianism,’ The Critique, 5 January 2016.

Anna Rowlands:

Anna’s blogs posts and radio appearances drawing on Refugee Hosts project research can be found here.

Rowlands, A. (2018) ‘Turkey – Crossroads for the Displaced‘ The Tablet, 5 March 2018.

Rowlands, A. (2017) ‘Pursuing Integral Peace: How to Resist Trump’s Politics of Despair,’ ABC Religion and Ethics, 1 February 2017.

Rowlands, A. (2017) ‘Against the Manichees: Immigration Detention and the Shaping of the Theo-political Imagination’ in Schmiedel, U. and Smith, G. Religion in the European Refugee Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Rowlands, A. (2016) ‘After Lesvos and Lampedusa: The European Crisis and its challenge to Catholic Social Thought’, Journal of Catholic Social Thought, Special Edition on Migration.

Rowlands, A. (2015) ‘Forgetting the Good: Moral Contradictions in the Response to Mass Migration’, ABC Religion and Ethics.

Rowlands, A. (2015) ‘Strangers in a Strange Land,’ The Tablet, 2 July 2015.

Rowlands, A. (2015) ‘Shoulder to Shoulder,’ The Tablet, 10 September 2015

Lyndsey Stonebridge:

Lyndsey’s blogs posts and radio appearances drawing on Refugee Hosts project research can be found here.

Stonebridge, L. (2022) ”The Definite Is the Shadow and not the Owner’: Hannah Arendt in the Shadows of Sovereignty’ in Sovereignty. A Global Perspective. Ed. Christopher Smith

‘The Definite Is the Shadow and not the Owner’: Hannah Arendt
in the Shadows of Sovereignty

Stonebridge, L. and Qasmiyeh, Y. M. (2018) ‘The Camp as Archive’, Politics/Letters Live, February 2018.

Stonebridge, L. and Qasmiyeh, Y. M. (2017) Time Machine: Stereoscopic Views from Palestine, 1900

Stonebridge, L. (2017) ‘Hannah Arendt – 2017 Cover Girl‘ Jewish Quarterly, May 2017.

Stonebridge, L. (2015) ‘What history tells us about the refugee crisis,’ The Humanist, 14 December 2015.

Stonebridge, L. (2015) ‘How books help us to be better political citizens,’ New Statesman, 25 August 2015.

Stonebridge, L (2018)  Placeless People.  Writing, Rights, and Refugees Oxford University Press 

Farrier, D. Wooley, A. Stonebridge, L. Durrant, S and Cox, E.  (eds) (2019) Refugee Imaginaries:  Research across the humanities. Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University Press

Stonebridge, L.J. (2016) ‘“Inner Emigration”: On the run with Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud’, in Daniel Pick and Matt ffychte (eds) Psychoanalysis and Totalitarianism, New York: Routledge, pp.42-54.

Stonebridge, L.J. (2015) ‘“To be borderline”: Poetic Statelessness, Auden and Qasmiyeh’, Textual Practice