Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena;
Greatrick, Aydan;
(2021)
Refugee-Host Relationality.
(Refugee Hosts Project – Recommendations for Research and Practice
3).
Refugee Hosts: London, UK.
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Abstract
Local responses to displacement do not sit in isolation from one another: instead, they are shaped by diverse overlapping processes and intersecting contexts of protracted displacement. This significantly challenges a view of local responses as being contained within just one municipality, neighbourhood or camp. Rather, an appreciation of how local responses in diverse spaces develop in relation to one another, enables a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the dynamics and processes that shape local responses to displacement. Equally, there is a tendency to view hosts as citizens that provide support to refugees. However, “shifting the gaze” towards a more relational approach recognises the significant role that refugees themselves play as providers of support and assistance, including through processes that can be conceptualised as ‘refugee-refugee humanitarianism’.iv In contexts of protracted displacement, newly arrived refugees will be hosted by established refugee communities displaced from ongoing protracted conflict, as is the case of people arriving from Syria and being hosted by Palestinian refugees in Baddawi refugee camp in North Lebanon. ‘Refugees’ and ‘hosts’ are not always distinct categories of people; refugees may previously have been hosts; and citizens in host countries may have past experiences of both displacement and of hosting. These shared histories of displacement and hosting inform local responses in ways that are under appreciated. Accounting for these relational processes, including through a recognition of ‘refugee-refugee relationality’, ‘overlapping displacement’ and intersecting structural barriers, is vital. This Research Brief offers recommendations to this effect.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Refugee-Host Relationality |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://refugeehosts.org/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148108 |
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