“We are All Refugees”: Camps and Informal Settlements as Converging Spaces of Global Displacements

Whither regional planning?

“…While preparing this collection we have been able to observe the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, critical questions about planning's role in facilitating racial inequality across US cities and regions, alongside many other issues which when looked at together emphasise the centrality of change and the need for planning to change with the times. It is here that we can see how approaches focusing attention on multiculturalism, decolonization and informality are leading to ever more diverse perspectives on what planning is and should be (Barry J & Thompson-Fawcett, 2020;Bhan et al, 2017;Huq & Miraftab, 2020;Williams, 2020;Yiftachel, 2020). At one level this calls for reforms to the planning system.…”

Solidarity and ‘social jealousy’: emotions and affect in Indonesian host society’s situated encounters with refugees

“…Contemporary cities have become spaces where different displaced populations converge. This includes sub-national migrations affected by urbanisation, those marginalised from the state and state services, and refugees and other migrants, thus blurring lines between refugee camps and informal settlements (Huq and Miraftab 2020). Urban spaces offer sites of situated encounters that co-constitute affective flows within the assemblage of refugee reception, which can easily be missed in state-centric approaches to refugee studies.…”

“…Urban spaces offer sites of situated encounters that co-constitute affective flows within the assemblage of refugee reception, which can easily be missed in state-centric approaches to refugee studies. As more and more refugees live in urban spaces for longer periods of time, experiences of exclusion are juxtaposed with common urban experiences that may forge solidarities for collective action (Huq and Miraftab 2020). However, these formed solidarities are often fraught and unstable.…”

“…The power relations between citizens and refugees are not one-directional. In their study on refugees and informal settlement dwellers living in Korail, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Huq and Miraftab (2020) argued that in contexts where citizenship does not guarantee access to state services, the line between citizens and refugees may blur. Understanding refugees' and citizens' positions as relational and dynamic can shed light on the affective flows that territorialise and de-territorialise the assemblage of refugee reception.…”

Vietnamese refugees in Britain: Language, translation, and the politics of protection in camp life and beyond

“…Both camps were located in former military bases converted into temporary "reception centres," a label contested by Bailkin (2018, p. 14) for " [obscuring] the relationship that these sites bear to detention, and the extent to which their residents were unfree." In fact, beyond the UK context, labels used to describe these human collectivities in the academy (see Oesch, 2017;Redclift, 2013;Turner, 2015) and by refugees themselves (see Huq & Miraftab, 2020) are the object of continuing debate on the heterogeneity of spaces, temporalities, and social relations through which refugee camps are created (see Darling, 2009;Katz et al, 2018;McConnachie, 2016).…”