Afterword: What Contemporary Camps Tell Us about the World to Come

Agier, Michel

doi:10.1353/hum.2016.0026

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“…37-59;Mcconnachie, 2016;Oesch, 2017). We are also aware of the political and historical conditions which have made refugee camps "the" appropriate spaces to deal with refugees in the Global South, in opposition to asylum and detention centres used to disrupt refugees' movement to the Global North (Agier, 2011(Agier, , 2016. While both points will be taken into consideration throughout the analysis, our article aims to find a cross-cutting perspective-in this case, the role of control and agency on camps' planning as a way to challenge these long-established dichotomies and categorisations regarding refugees and camps in different contexts.…”

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Planning the Ideal Refugee Camp? A Critical Interrogation of Recent Planning Innovations in Jordan and Germany

Dalal

Darweesh

Misselwitz

et al. 2018

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With the increase of refugee movements since 2014 in Europe and the Near East, the debate of how to plan appropriate shelters and emergency accommodation has gained a new momentum. Established techno-managerial approaches have been criticised as inappropriate and the professional community of planners and architects was increasingly drawn into debates for alternative solutions. This article traces the “innovations” that promise better, more effective, and more humane emergency shelters using the examples of the “Tempohomes” in Berlin as well as the Jordanian refugee camps of Zaatari and Azraq. In both cases, planners were employed to address the ambivalent reality of protracted refugee camps and include “lessons” from failures of earlier solutions. While the article acknowledges the genuine attempt of planners to engage with the more complex needs and expectations of refugees, a careful look at the results of the planning for better camps reveals ambivalent outcomes. As camps acquire a new visual appearance, closer to housing, which mixes shelter design with social spaces and services as essential parts of the camp; these “innovations” bear the danger of paternalistic planning and aestheticisation, camouflaging control under what seems to be well-intended and sensitive planning. The article focuses on refugees’ agency expressed in critical camp studies to interrogate the planning results. While recent critical refugee studies have demanded recognition of refugees as urban actors which should be included in the co-production of the spatial reality of refugee accommodations, new planning approaches tend to result in a shrinking of spaces of self-determination and self-provisioning of refugees.

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Section: Methodology and Approachmentioning

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Planning the Ideal Refugee Camp? A Critical Interrogation of Recent Planning Innovations in Jordan and Germany

Dalal

Darweesh

Misselwitz

et al. 2018

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“…Recent research on refugee and migrant camps has been vibrant, as highlighted in a number of substantial books and review essays (Agier, 2014(Agier, , 2016Ehrkamp, 2016;Katz et al, 2018;Martin et al, 2020;Minca, 2015;Turner, 2015). A common thread in this literature is the difficulties of defining the camp, as diverse sites in which varied forms of shelter and modes of care coincide and conflict with technologies of control, governance and containment of refugees, migrants and displaced people (Lecadet and de Hasque, 2019).…”

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“…Like camps themselves, camp closures vary greatly. In reflecting on camp futures, Agier outlines three possible scenarios for camps: they can disappear, they can gradually transform or they can simply remain places of waiting (Agier, 2016: 465). Elements of all three scenarios might be present in a single location, while the cause of a closure (such as state violence) is not a consistent predictor of the outcome for the camp (such as destruction or transformation) (Agier, 2014).…”

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Closing camps

Weima

Minca

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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Refugee camp geographies vary greatly; however, the most fleeting informal camps and decades-old institutional settlements have in common that they are meant to be temporary. While research on camps has been attentive to their spatialities, relatively little work has focused on closures. However, we consider the permanent possibility of closure as a constitutive element of life-in-the-camp. Closures, then, must be situated within the exclusionary landscapes in which states manage migrants custody, protection and displacement. We accordingly present camp closures as manifestations of sovereign power and the study of camp afterlives as key to critical understandings of camp geographies.

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“…Wir gehen hierbei allerdings nicht von einer Normalisierung und Routinisierung von prekären Situationen Gef lüchteter aus, sondern verstehen diese Praktiken als Stabilisierungsversuche: »normal in the sense that it is what there is most, but it does not become normal in the sense that this is how things should be« (Vigh 2008: 8). Daher interpretieren wir die Normalisierung auch als eine Phase der Re-Subjektivierung und Re-Emanzipation nach einer traumatischen Flucht (Agier 2008(Agier , 2010(Agier , 2011(Agier , 2016.…”

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Löw¹,

Sayman²,

Schwerer³

et al. 2021

Re-Figuration Von Räumen

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Re-Figuration von Räumen| Band 1 Editorial Der Reihe Re-Figuration von Räumen liegt die Prämisse zugrunde, dass das Soziale immer räumliche Formen annimmt. Die hier versammelten Studien befassen sich mit gegenwärtigen Transformationen sozial relevanter Räume und den damit verbundenen Konflikten, Krisen und Unsicherheiten. Sie untersuchen die These, dass es in diesen Transformationen und Konflikten ein gemeinsames Muster gibt, das als »Re-Figuration der Räume« bezeichnet wird. Die unterschiedlichen Wandlungsprozesse finden ihren Ausdruck in neu entstehenden Raumformen und -figuren, in den Kämpfen um die Aufrechterhaltung etablierter Raumstrukturen sowie den daraus resultierenden Figurationen. Oder mit anderen Worten: Der Raum ist ebenso wie die Zeit das Medium der Transformation der gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft, so dass die Analyse der Räume einen integrativen Ausgangspunkt für die Analyse der entstehenden Gesellschaftsmuster darstellt. Die Publikationen der Reihe entspringen dem Sonderforschungsbereich 1265 Re-Figuration von Räumen und damit aus sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen wie Soziologie, Geographie, Architekturwissenschaft, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Stadtplanung und Europäischer Ethnologie. Sie nehmen mitunter eine theoretische Ausrichtung ein, beruhen zumeist aber auf empirischen Studien, die qualitative, quantitative oder visuelle Methoden verwenden. Die Reihe wird herausgegeben von Hubert Knoblauch und Martina Löw. Martina Löw ist Professorin für Planungs-und Architektursoziologie am Institut für Soziologie der Technischen Universität Berlin. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen Soziologische Theorie, Stadtsoziologie, Raumtheorie und Kultursoziologie. Sie ist Sprecherin des DFG-Sonderforschungsbereiches »Re-Figuration von Räumen« und wirkt als Beraterin in verschiedenen Stadtentwicklungsprojekten mit. Sie hatte Fellowships und Gastprofessuren u.a. in New York (USA), Göteborg (Schweden), Salvador de Bahia (Brasilien), St. Gallen (Schweiz), Paris (Frankreich) und Wien (Österreich) und ist als Mitglied des Steering Committee der Berlin University Alliance verantwortlich für das Forschungsförderprogramm »Social Cohesion«. Von 2011 bis 2013 war sie Vorsitzende der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Volkan Sayman ist Soziologe und arbeitet als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich »Re-Figuration von Räumen« an der Technischen Universität Berlin. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Wissenschafts-und Innovationsforschung, die Transformation öffentlicher Räume, Science and Technology Studies sowie qualitative Methoden der Sozialforschung.

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Afterword: What Contemporary Camps Tell Us about the World to Come

Cited by 12 publications

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Planning the Ideal Refugee Camp? A Critical Interrogation of Recent Planning Innovations in Jordan and Germany

Planning the Ideal Refugee Camp? A Critical Interrogation of Recent Planning Innovations in Jordan and Germany

Closing camps

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