Refuge in a Moving World

Refuge in aMoving World draws together more than thirty contributions written from multiple disciplinesand fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement.The volume combines criticalreflections on the complexities of conceptualizingprocesses and experiencesof (forced) migration, with detailed analyses of these experiences in contemporary and historical settings around the world. Through interdisciplinaryapproaches and methodologies - including participatory research, poetic andspatial interventions, ethnography, theatre, discourse analysis and visualmethods - the volume documents the complexities of refugees' and migrants'journeys. This includes a particular focus on how peopleinhabit and negotiate everyday life in cities, towns, camps and informalsettlements across the Middle East and North Africa, Southern and EasternAfrica, and Europe.A key dynamicdocumented throughout the book is the multiple ways that responses to displacement are enacted by people withpersonal or family experiences of (forced) migration. These people appear in many roles: as researchers, writers and artists, teachers, solidarians, firstresponders, NGO practitioners, neighbours and/or friends. Through theapplication of historically and spatially sensitive, intersectional andinterdisciplinary lenses, the contributors explorethe ways that different people - across axes of religion, race, sexuality, gender andage - experience and respond to their own situations and to those of other people,in the context of diverse power structures and structural inequalities on thelocal, national and international level.Ultimately, Refugein a Moving World argues that working collaboratively through interdisciplinaryapproaches and methodologies has the potential to develop nuanced understandingsof processes of migration and displacement, and, in turn, to encourage more sustainablemodes of responding to our moving world.