Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to invite you to an upcoming seminar at Oxford Brookes:
*Hosting networks among refugees in Amman, Jordan*
Speaker: Zoe Jordan (CENDEP, Oxford Brookes University)
Time: Thursday 15th November at 16.30-18.00
Place: Abercrombie building 3rd floor, white space/student hub (Oxford
Brookes University, Headingon Campus, Oxford, OX3 0BP)
*Abstract*
Since 2015, Europeans have become more familiar with programmes that ask
city residents to offer a spare room to asylum-seekers and refugees. Yet
refugee hosting exists beyond the borders of Europe. In countries around
the world, sharing accommodation with IDPs and refugees is a widespread and
longstanding practice, offering vital support to thousands of people
displaced by conflict and disaster. As humanitarian action moves
increasingly into urban areas, we need to better understand how such
community support mechanisms work and the impact of external actions on
them, including the unintended consequences of humanitarian policies.
In such contexts refugee hosting is rarely mediated by an NGO or other
external facilitator. Rather, the people involved create these
relationships, often independently or perhaps with some support from an
organisation or institution already present in their lives – a religious
organisation, a community leader, or a local group. In many cases,
displaced people may live with extended family members, but this is by no
means universal.
My talk is based on research with young, single, Sudanese men living in
urban Amman, Jordan. These men arrived without pre-existing connections, to
an environment that is largely hostile towards them, where they receive
little to no humanitarian support. Under such conditions, learning to
negotiate the urban environment and forge their own support networks is
essential. In this talk, I will explore how and where they make connections
with their hosts, why they decide to live together, and how they experience
living in a hosting arrangement.
The event is free and open to everyone.
Best regards
Peter
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Peter Lugosi, PhD
Reader
Oxford School of Hospitality Management
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Oxford
OX3 0BP
Tel: +44 (0)1865 484 404
Profile: <http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/CHME>
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/hospitality/about/staff/?wid=oshm_list&op=full&uid=p0076361
Read and download free publications:
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Lugosi;
http://oxfordbrookes.academia.edu/PeterLugosi
Hospitality & Society Journal:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=194/view,page=2/
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