05 August 2013

Thematic Focus: Refugee Camps & Shelters

Resources:

60 Years of Refugee Shelters (UNHCR Innovation Unit, 2013) [access]
- Follow link for photos.

Campzenship: Rethinking the Camp as a Political Space, Oxford, Oxford, 11-12 April 2013 [access]
- Follow link for podcast.

"The End of Refugee Camps?," Chapter in The Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law, Theory and Policy (Ashgate, March 2013) [postprint via SSRN]

"Ikea Develops a Smart Flat-Pack Shelter for Disaster Refugees," Wired Magazine, 10 July 2013 [text]

Refugee Shelter for the Future (IRIN, Aug. 2013) [text]

"Why Do We Still Put Refugees in Tents? IKEA Has a New Idea," Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2013 [text]

World Refugee Day: Is It Time to Invest in Refugee Camps? (Global Development Professionals Network, June 2013) [access]
- Live Q&A from The Guardian.  See also summary of comments.  

Upcoming event:

Resourceful Cities, Berlin, 29-31 August 2013 [info]
- Various papers on camps are available.  See, e.g., these search results on "asylum."

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

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