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*14TH IMISCOE ANNUAL CONFERENCE*
*June 28-30, 2017 | Rotterdam, The Netherlands*
Open research panel/Call for papers
*Deadline **12 December 2016*
*The Refugees’ Right to Housing: *
*Refugee Housing Commons vs. State-run Camps*
*link
<https://www.academia.edu/29947913/The_Refugees_Right_to_Housing_Refugee_Housing_Commons_vs._State-run_Camps>*
Panos-Arion Hatziprokopiou
Assistant Professor, School of Spatial Planning and Development, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
https://auth.academia.edu/PHatziprokopiou
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Charalampos Tsavdaroglou
Dr. Urban Planner, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
https://auth.academia.edu/CharalamposTsavdaroglou
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
The refugee waves deriving from conflict areas in the the Middle East, Asia
and Africa are a central issue to the growing socio-spatial debate about
the different facets of contemporary crisis. A noticeable body of
literature is currently emerging, exploring aspects of border control and
State immigration policies as well as the social philanthropy and
humanitarianism underscoring NGO activities. Accordingly, refugees are
often seen as passive recipients of state or NGO/philanthropy led
practices, especially regarding their settlement, albeit temporary, and
respective housing solutions. However, there is little attempt to research
how the refugees themselves self-organize and enact the production of
seemingly anonymous, yet highly personal and collective housing common
spaces, often at creative encounter with local solidarity movements and
activists. The proposed panel aims to fill this gap. Following recent
spatial approaches on “commons” and “enclosures”, this research panel
compares and contrasts refugee-led solidarity housing commons, usually
emerging in urban areas, with State-run refugee camps, which are mostly
located in rural areas or the urban periphery.
This panel welcomes proposals from various disciplines that:
- follow dialectic, postcolonial and intersectional approaches
offering integrative views on the interplay between gender, class, ethnic
or sexual relations and understanding migrants and refugees not only as
victims but also as agents of resistance and emancipation.
- question how migrants and refugees self-organize themselves beyond
State provisions and NGO support, whom they build alliances with and how
they (re)negotiate their various identities.
- assess, document, map and monitor the refugees’ access to housing,
considering it an essential step towards ‘integration’ and a precondition
for the full enjoyment of social and civil rights as well as spatial
justice.
Please submit your abstract of 250 words by *12th December 2016*,
to Panos-Arion Hatziprokopiou ([log in to unmask]) and Charalampos
Tsavdaroglou ([log in to unmask]).
Abstract should include: title, keywords, name of the author(s),
affiliation and full contact details.
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