Organizaciones gestionadas por refugiados como socios en el desarrollo

La incorporación de organizaciones gestionadas por refugiados a programas de desarrollo, potencialmente como socios ejecutores, es una forma de capitalizar las habilidades de los refugiados, de alcanzar a los que no están afiliados a ninguna organización internacional y de comenzar a cerrar la brecha entre ayuda y desarrollo que existe en las situaciones de refugiados prolongadas

Book review: displacement economies in Africa: paradoxes of crisis and creativity edited by Amanda Hammar

Based on empirical case studies from across sub-Saharan Africa, the contributions in this volume look to provide fresh insights into the unexpected changes, complex agency and persistent dynamism entailed in displacement processes. This book not only interrogates the many meanings of displacement but emphasises the under-researched agency and creativity inherent to displacement economies throughout Africa, concludes Evan Easton-Calabria

The best bookshops in Berlin

Evan Easton-Calabria is a research assistant at the Oxford Department of International Development. In this post she talks us through the best bookshops in Berlin, Germany. If there’s a bookshop that you think other students and academics should visit when they’re undertaking research or visiting a city for a conference, find more information about contributing below

Book review: moral encounters in tourism edited by Mary Mostafanezhad and Kevin Hannam

Key themes in this new book include the moral consumption of tourism experiences, embodiment in tourism encounters, environmental moralities as well as methodological aspects of morality in tourism research. Evan Easton-Calabria finds that this is an exceptional addition to the growing field of critical tourism studies

The best bookshops in Kraków, Poland

Evan Easton-Calabria is a research assistant at the Oxford Department of International Development. In this post she talks us through the best bookshops in Kraków, Poland. If there’s a bookshop that you think other students and academics should visit when they’re undertaking research or visiting a city for a conference, find more information about contributing below

Book review: diasporas, development and peacemaking in the Horn of Africa, edited by Liisa Laakso and Petri Hautaniemi

The volume presents a stimulating overview of the varied positions, such as peacebuilders, investors, and civic members, that members of diasporas hold, as well as extant gaps related to diasporas such as theoretical frameworks and host country institutional incorporation and engagement. This is an enriching book, writes Evan Easton-Calabria

Chapter Introduction

The first chapter is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. Evan Easton-Calabria’s critical history of refugee self-reliance assistance brings new dimensions to refugee and international development studies. The promotion of refugee self-reliance is evident today, yet its history remains largely unexplored, with good practices and longstanding issues often missed. Through archival and contemporary evidence, this book documents a century of little-known efforts to foster refugee self-reliance, including the economic, political, and social motives driving this assistance. With five case studies from Greece, Tanzania, Pakistan, Uganda, and Egypt, the book tracks refugee self-reliance as a malleable concept used to pursue ulterior interests. It reshapes understandings of refugee self-reliance and delivers important messages for contemporary policy making.illustrato

The best bookshops in Seattle

Evan Easton-Calabria is a research assistant at the Oxford Department of International Development. In this piece she takes us through the best bookshops in the U.S. city of Seattle. If there’s a bookshop that you think other students and academics should visit when they’re undertaking research or visiting a city for a conference, find more information about contributing below