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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited collection provides new insights into refugee reception and camps by focusing on the overlap between local and global dynamics...
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  • 11 November 2025
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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This edited collection provides new insights into refugee reception and camps by focusing on the overlap between local and global dynamics in the governance of camps.

Contributors examine how camps are (re)placed within their local contexts across regions including Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. They explore how local environments both influence, and are influenced by, global flows, networks and connections in the governance of refugee camps.

By highlighting these interconnections, this volume provides valuable insights for scholars, policy makers and practitioners seeking to understand the complex realities of refugee camps around the world.

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Price: $49.95
Pages: 318
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Series: Global Migration and Social Change
Publication Date: 11 November 2025
ISBN: 9781529222838
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Refugees and political asylum, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Sociology, Migration, immigration and emigration
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‘This vital collection offers rare, incisive insights into the entangled local and global dynamics shaping refugee camps within a uniquely global frame.’ Paolo Novak, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London

Lucas Oesch is Scientific Officer at the University of Neuchâtel. He was previously based at the University of Luxembourg where he directed the REFUGOV research project on refugee reception in Luxembourg and Jordan.

Léa Lemaire is Associate Researcher at Mesopolhis, Aix-Marseille University and at REPI, Université libre de Bruxelles. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg where she managed the REFUGOV research project on refugee reception in Luxembourg and Jordan.

1. Introduction: A Local and Global Perspective on Refugee Reception and Camps - Lucas Oesch and Léa Lemaire

2. Setting the Scene: Refugee Reception and the Challenge of ‘the Local’ - Jonathan Darling

Part 1: Camps and Their Relations with Cities

3. Local Governance of/through Informal Refugee Camps: Revisiting Lebanon’s Palestinian and Syrian ‘Gatherings’ - Nora Stel

4. Unrelated spaces? Camps and cities in Jordan and Luxembourg - Léa Lemaire and Lucas Oesch

5. Between the Exceptional and the Ordinary: The Local Turn and the Camp in South Asia - Ankur Datta

6. Welcome to the Bubble: Governing the Parisian ‘Migration Crisis’ from the Street to the Centre de premier accueil - Melora Koepke

Part 2: Camps and the Provision of Care

7. The Governance of Migrant Reception and More-Than-Local Stories in Southern Costa Rica - Elena Reichl and Nanneke Winters

8. Camps and Safe Houses: Serbia’s Local Geographies of Reception and Care for Unaccompanied Refugee Children - Jessica Collins-Bojovic and Claudio Minca

9. An Unlikely Host in Humanitarian Reception: Fort McCoy during Operation Allies Welcome in the US - Erin Barbato

10. Non-Care in the Detention Hotel: 20 Years of Australia’s use of ‘Alternative Places of Detention’ - Andrew Burridge

Part 3: Camps as Economic Resources

11. How Do Camps Affect Cities? The Political Economy of Refugee Camps and Arua, Uganda - Evan Easton‐Calabria

12. Refugee Accommodation Industries: Migration Governance, Profit and City Making - René Kreichauf

13. Humanitarian Governance as Development: Protracted Refugee Camps as Drivers of Investment and Innovation in Refugee-Hosting Regions - Bram J. Jansen

14. Providing Hospitality to Asylum Seekers: Exploring the Tension between Tourism and Refugee Accommodation in Austria’s Migration System through Visual Research - Nina Valerie Kolowratnik and Johannes Pointl