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Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics Shelter

Current price: $110.00
Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics Shelter
Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics Shelter

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Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics Shelter

Current price: $110.00

Size: Hardcover

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This book focuses on seven examples of emergency shelter, from Germany to Jordan, which emerged after the great "summer of migration" in 2015. Drawing on detailed ethnographic research into these shelters, the book reflects on their political implications and opens up much bigger questions about humanitarian action. By exploring how aid agencies and architects approached this basic human need, Tom Scott-Smith demonstrates how shelter has many elements that are hard to reconcile or combine; shelter is always partial and incomplete, producing mere fragments of home. Ultimately, he argues that current approaches to emergency shelter have led to destructive forms of paternalism and concludes that the principle of autonomy can offer a more fruitful approach to sensitive and inclusive housing.

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