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Host Cities
How Refugees Are Transforming the World's Urban Settings
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2025
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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. Over the past twenty-five years, Karen Jacobsen has studied the interaction of refugees and cities and has trained scores of graduate students, many of whom now work with United Nations agencies or humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. Her research team at Tufts and this global network of aid workers give her firsthand knowledge of the impact of forced migration on cities and the lives of refugees living there.
Focusing on cities and refugees in Africa and the Middle East, Jacobsen draws universal lessons, distilling her research findings and wisdom from decades of experience into clear, vivid prose. The book is valuable for researchers, policy analysts, donors, and humanitarian workers in cities around the globe and for all readers trying to understand, beyond the headlines, one of the most troubling and volatile issues of our time.
Cities all over the world experience large humanitarian influxes, and refugees and citizens alike must navigate the related risks and opportunities. Over the past twenty-five years, Karen Jacobsen has studied the interaction of refugees and cities and has trained scores of graduate students, many of whom now work with United Nations agencies or humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. Her research team at Tufts and this global network of aid workers give her firsthand knowledge of the impact of forced migration on cities and the lives of refugees living there.
Focusing on cities and refugees in Africa and the Middle East, Jacobsen draws universal lessons, distilling her research findings and wisdom from decades of experience into clear, vivid prose. The book is valuable for researchers, policy analysts, donors, and humanitarian workers in cities around the globe and for all readers trying to understand, beyond the headlines, one of the most troubling and volatile issues of our time.
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
xix - ONE: FRAMING THE PROBLEM
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1 Cities and Humanitarian Influxes
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2 The Actors and the Numbers
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3 Informal Cities: How Cities Are Growing
37 - TWO: SECONDARY CITIES: TRIPOLI, LEBANON
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4 How Refugees Get Stuck in Cities
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5 Lebanon: The Refugee Context
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6 Tripoli and the Changing City Landscape
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7 The Camp and the City
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8 Here Comes the Money
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9 Just Give Them Cash
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10 Trash Mountain
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11 The Smuggling Economy
153 - THREE: GIANT CITIES: CAIRO, EGYPT
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12 Comparing the Experiences of Cairo and Tripoli
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13 Egypt: The Refugee Context
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14 Drops in the Bucket: Cairo’s Refugee Neighborhoods
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15 The Bus to 6th of October: The Desert Cities and UNHCR
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16 Refugee Entrepreneurs
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17 “Money Has Come”: Remittances and Informal Money Transfers
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18 Ard al-Lewa: Drinking, Women’s Work, and Social Cohesion
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Epilogue: Strengthening Host Cities
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Postscript: Update on Mahmoud and Hassan
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Notes
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Index
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November 18, 2025
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9780300285918
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