Structures of Protection?

<p> Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines including sociology anthropology law architecture and history each of the chapters describes a particular shelter and uses this to open up theoretical reflections on the relationship between architecture place politics design and displacement.</p>