This chapter analyses the role of household-level refugee hosting relationships in refugees’ experiences of home in protracted displacement. Conceptualised as relationships of care, the everyday practice of hosting holds the potential for home within an uncertain and hostile context. Yet, this is an incomplete and transient home, restricted by the temporal, legal, and political limitations of protracted displacement. Based on qualitative research with Sudanese refugee men living in urban Amman, I look at the day-to-day experience of living in a refugee-refugee hosting relationship in with the socio-economic dynamics of Sudanese refugeehood. Household-level hosting is an overlooked practice within humanitarian and forced migration studies, yet it is by paying attention to the everyday ways in which particular refugee groups create and experience relations of care that we can re-focus our attention on how refugees inhabit, experience, and negotiate protracted urban displacement.
Jordan, Zoë
School of Architecture
Year of publication: 2023Date of RADAR deposit: 2024-02-23
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