Urban refugees in a ‘non-Convention’ city

City ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie Tuitjer ◽  
Quentin Batréau
Keyword(s):  
Urban Refugees

Palestinian Refugees between the City and the Camp

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-621
Author(s):  
Faedah M. Totah
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
Urban Refugees ◽  
Old City ◽  
Refugee Experience ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

AbstractThe camp and the city are both important for understanding the relationship between space and identity in the refugee experience of exile. In the Palestinian example, the camp has emerged as a potent symbol in the narrative of exile although only a third of refugees registered with UNRWA live in camps. Moreover, the city and urban refugees remain missing in most of the scholarship on the Palestinian experience with space, exile, and identity. Furthermore, there is little attention to how refugees understand the concept of the city and camp in their daily life. This article examines how Palestinian urban refugees in the Old City of Damascus conceptualized the relationship between the camp and the city. It illustrates how the concept of the camp remained necessary for the construction of their collective national identity while in Syria. However, the city was essential in the articulation of individual desires and establishing social distinction from other refugees. Thus, during a protracted exile it is in the interstice between the city and the camp, where most urban refugees in the Old City situated themselves, that informed their national belonging and personal aspirations.

The psychosocial effect of COVID-19 on urban refugees: Narratives from Congolese refugees living in Kampala

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-87
Author(s):  
Paul Bukuluki ◽  
Hadijah Mwenyango ◽  
Francis Kato ◽  
Agnes Kyamulabi ◽  
Alex Bagabo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Refugees ◽  
Psychosocial Effect
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