Making Home(s) in Displacement

Luce Beeckmans is assistant professor of architecture and urbanism in relation to migration and diversity at Ghent University. Alessandra Gola is an architect and doctoral researcher at KU Leuven as well as the co-founder of The Yalla Project in Nablus, Palestine. Ashika Singh is doctor in architecture and philosophy at KU Leuven. Hilde Heynen is professor of architectural theory and history at KU Leuven.

• INTRODUCTION Rethinking the Intersection of Home and Displacement from a Spatial Perspective Luce Beeckmans, Ashika Singh & Alessandra Gola PART 1 – CAMP To Shelter in Place for a Time BeyondAnooradha Iyer Siddiqi & Somayeh Chitchian Towards Dwelling in Spaces of Inhospitality. A Phenomenological Exploration of Home in Nahr Al-Barid Ashika Singh Who/What Is Doing What? Dwelling and Homing Practices in Syrian Refugee Camps –The Kurdistan Region of IraqLayla Zibar, Nurhan Abujidi & Bruno de Meulder In the Name of Belonging Developing Sheikh Radwan for the Refugees in Gaza City, 1967-1982 Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat PART 2 – SHELTER At Home in the Centre? Spatial Appropriation and Horizons of Homemaking in Reception Facilities for Asylum Seekers Paolo Boccagni Bare Shelter. The Layered Spatial Politics of Inhabiting DisplacementIrit Katz Refugee Shelters done Differently. Humanist Architecture of Socialist Yugoslavia Aleksandar Staničić Years in the Waiting Room. A feminist Ethnography of the Invisible Institutional Living Spaces of Forced Displacement Maretha Dreyer PART 3 – CITY Gendering Displacement. Women Refugees and the Geographies of Dwelling in India Romola Sanyal Homing Displacements. Socio-Spatial Identities in Contemporary Urban Palestine Alessandra Gola Mediating between Formality and Informality. Refugee Housing as City-Making Activity in Refugee Crisis Athens Aikaterini Antonopoulou Making Home in Borgo Mezzanone. Dignity and Mafias in South ItalyAnna Di Giusto PART 4 – HOUSE News from the Living Room. Historiography and Immigrant Agency in Urban Housing in Berlin Esra Akcan The Nubian House. Displacement, Dispossession, and ResilienceMenna Agha Trans-national Homes. From Nairobi to Cape TownHuda Tayob Static Displacement, Adaptive Domesticity. The Three Temporary Geographies of Firing Zone 918, Palestine Wafa Butmeh CODA About the Displacement of HomeHilde Heynen

In sum this book brings together a large variety of material on the making and unmaking of homes in displacement as a spatial practice. Forced displacement is the focus of most chapters of the book, but some deal with a broader set of displaced people. This is an important reminder that there is not necessarily a clear dividing line between the migration of those who seek work and those who seek asylum. Moreover, the book shows the merits of interdisciplinary research. Scholars, activists and architects involved in the (re)thinking of what it means to imagine, design and create ‘homes’ in contexts of human displacement were brought together. - Ilse van Liempt, **Urban Studies, March 2023