Refugee shelters in humanitarian responses: places of protection?
Course Description:
Meet Google: https://meet.google.com/fmn-udfx-vtt
Friday – 05.01.2023
9.00 – 10.30 (online)
10.30 – 12.45 (online)
Friday – 12.01.2023
8.00 – 9.30 (online)
Friday – 19.01.2023
9.00 – 10.30 (online)
10.30 – 12.00 (online)
Friday – 26.01.2023
9.00 – 10.30 (online)
10.30 – 12.00 (online)
According to UNHCR, every two seconds a person becomes forcibly displaced worldwide, reaching in 2021 the mark of 34.4 asylum seekers and refugees. The growing number of refugees in the world brings amongst its challenges the provision of shelter for those in need. This course has been designed to provide students with an understanding of the employment of refugee shelters as a humanitarian response. The course will combine textual and photographic analysis on refugees and different cases studies on refugee shelters around the world. A special focus will be put onto the current Venezuelan forced migration flow to Brazil and this country’s humanitarian response called Operação Acolhida (Operation Welcome). It will bring first-hand information and analysis from Dr Fabricio Carrijo’s engagement on the topic as a researcher and photographer. The course’s bibliography might be changed and a final version will be provided a week before the beginning of the workshop.
Course Structure:
1. Refugee shelters as humanitarian responses
1. DAVIES, Thom; ISAKJEE, Arshad; DHESI, Surindar (2017) Violent Inaction: The Necropolitical Experience of Refugees in Europe. Antipode, 49 (5), pp. 1263-84. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12325
2. PALLISTER-WILKINS, Polly (2020) Moria Hotspot: shelter as a politically crafted materiality of neglect. In: Tom Scott-Smith; Mark E. Breeze (eds). Structures of Protection?: Rethinking Refugee Shelter. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 71-80.
3.SCOTT-SMITH, Tom (2020) Places of Partial Protection: Refugee Shelter since 2015. In: Tom Scott-Smith; Mark E. Breeze (eds). Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter. New York: Berghahn Books, pp.1-12. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1tbhr26.4
2. Visual representation of refugees
4. JOHNSON, Heather L.(2018) Refugees. In: Roland Bleiker. Visual global politics. New York: Routledge, pp. 244-250.
5. Georgiou, Myria (2018) Does the subaltern speak? Migrant voices in digital Europe, Popular Communication, 16:1, pp. 45-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2017.1412440
3. Venezuelan forced migration flow to Brazil
6. REACH (2019) Venezuelan Migration in Brazil: Socio-economic and vulnerability profiling of Persons of Concern in Pacaraima, Boa Vista and Manaus. UNHCR. https://reliefweb.int/report/brazil/venezuelan-migration-brazil-socio-ec... vulnerability-profiling-persons-concern
7. JUBILUT, Liliana L. ; JAROCHINSKI SILVA, João C. (2020) Trends in Brazil’s Practices of Refugee Protection: Promising Inspirations for the EU?. Asile project. https://www.asileproject.eu/trends-in-brazils-practices-of-refugee-prote... inspirations-for-the-eu/
4. Brazilian Humanitarian response: structures, actors and challenges
8. CARRIJO, Fabricio B.;GÓRKA, Katarzyna;AGUIAR, Lisiane M., BERNARDES Ana C.,; PALÁCIO, Amanda I., MACHADO, Ana C.; ORIHUELA, Juliana C.; MANGABEIA; Juliana; ASSUNÇÃO, Rafaela G.; BARROS, Suedy L. (2019) Migrant Stories: Sheltered Lives. Caderno 4 Campos, issue II, p.117-147. https://1c0b87a2-b126-4f5c-9668- 05dc16bb83ff.filesusr.com/ugd/1e1398_6ff71b80cf374e4f98c3cab0e92b1756.pdf
9. MOULIN, Carolina; MAGALHÃES, Bruno (2020): Operation shelter as humanitarian infrastructure: material and normative renderings of Venezuelan migration in Brazil, Citizenship Studies, pp.1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2020.1784643
Aims of the course:
The main assumption of this course is to develop a solid understanding of the use of refugee shelters in humanitarian responses. Students will learn how to critically and comparatively analyse such type of humanitarian aid in different countries and its implications to the refugees in those spaces. Students will become familiar with the combination of textual and photographic analysis applied to refugee studies. Students are also expected to develop an in-depth knowledge of the humanitarian response to Venezuelan migration flow to Brazil.
Teaching methods:
Lectures, text and photography analysis, discussions and seminars.
Evaluation & Completion:
Student participation in the discussions in class (20% of the grade).
Preparation of a case study and presentation during the seminars (80% of the grade).
