13 Structures to Shelter the Mind: Refugee Housing and Mental Wellbeing in Berlin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Introduction. Places of Partial Protection: Refugee Shelter since 2015 1
5. Part I Shelter, Containment and Mobility
6. 1 Moving, Containing, Displacing: The Shipping Container as Refugee Shelter 15
7. 2 At the Edge: Containment and the Construction of Europe 31
8. 3 Shifting Shelters: Migrants, Mobility and the Making of Open Centres in Malta 45
9. 4 Moria: Anti-shelter and the Spectacle of Deterrence 57
10. 5 Moria Hotspot: Shelter as a Politically Crafted Materiality of Neglect 71
11. 6 Architectures of Trauma: Forced Shelter and Immigration Detention 83
12. 7 Settling the Unsettled: Forced Shelter in the Negev Desert 97
13. Part II Shelter, Resistance and Solidarity
14. 8 The Contingent Camp: Struggling for Shelter in Calais, France 111
15. 9 Sounding the Shelter, Voicing the Squat: The Sonic Politics of Refugee Shelter in Athens 123
16. 10 Redignifying Refugees: A Critical Study of Citizen-Run Shelters in Athens 135
17. 11 A More Personal Shelter: How Citizens Are Hosting Forced Migrants in and around Brussels 149
18. 12 Life in the Aluminium Whale: A Study of Berlin’s ICC Shelter 163
19. 13 Structures to Shelter the Mind: Refugee Housing and Mental Wellbeing in Berlin 175
20. Part III Architecture, Design and Displacement
21. 14 Protection or Isolation? Humanitarian Evacuees in Australian Quarantine Stations 187
22. 15 Silos in Trieste, Italy: A Historical Shelter for Displaced People 199
23. 16 Flexible Shelters, Modular Meanings: The Lives and Afterlives of Danish ‘Refugee Villages’ 211
24. 17 Shelter as Cladding: Resourcefulness, Improvisation and Refugee-Led Innovation in Goudoubo Camp 223
25. 18 Adhocism, Agency and Emergency Shelters: On Architectural Nuclei of Life in Displacement 235
26. 19 Social Media, Shelter and Resilience: Design in Za’atari Refugee Camp 249
27. 20 Confinement, Power and Permanence in Informal Refugee Spaces: Syrian Refugees in Lebanon 263
28. 21 From Emergency Shelter to Community Shelter: Berlin’s Tempelhof Refugee Camp 275
29. Conclusion: Towards Better Shelter: Rethinking Humanitarian Sheltering 287
30. Index 301