Host Cities : How Refugees Are Transforming the World's Urban Settings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobsen, Karen.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2025.

Summary:

A revealing study of how the arrival of refugees affects and transforms cities Cities all over the world experience large humanitarian influxes, and refugees and citizens alike must navigate the related risks and opportunities.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

ONE: FRAMING THE PROBLEM

1 Cities and Humanitarian Influxes

2 The Actors and the Numbers

3 Informal Cities: How Cities Are Growing

TWO: SECONDARY CITIES: TRIPOLI, LEBANON

4 How Refugees Get Stuck in Cities

5 Lebanon: The Refugee Context

6 Tripoli and the Changing City Landscape

7 The Camp and the City

8 Here Comes the Money

9 Just Give Them Cash

10 Trash Mountain

11 The Smuggling Economy

THREE: GIANT CITIES: CAIRO, EGYPT

12 Comparing the Experiences of Cairo and Tripoli

13 Egypt: The Refugee Context

14 Drops in the Bucket: Cairo's Refugee Neighborhoods

15 The Bus to 6th of October: The Desert Cities and UNHCR

16 Refugee Entrepreneurs

17 "Money Has Come": Remittances and Informal Money Transfers

18 Ard al-Lewa: Drinking, Women's Work, and Social Cohesion

Epilogue: Strengthening Host Cities

Postscript: Update on Mahmoud and Hassan

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-300-28591-4

9780300285918

OCLC:

1550453598