The volume, published by Berghahn Books, 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. 

The book is a product of a conference, convened by Scott-Smith and Breeze, which took place in 2018 at St. Cross College.

Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E Breeze (eds0 (2020) Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter, Berghahn Books