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Dawn Chatty
University of Oxford
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: +44-1865-281715
University of Oxford
Refugee Studies Program 3 Mansfield Rd
Oxford OX1 3TB
United Kingdom
ABOUT
Dawn Chatty is University Professor in Anthropology and Forced Migration and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests include coping strategies and resilience of refugee youth, nomadic pastoralism and conservation, gender and development, health, illness and culture. Her most recent books include: Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 2010; Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa (eds. with Bill Finlayson), Oxford University Press, 2010; Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East, (ed.) Berghahn Books, 2010; Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century, Leiden, Brill, 2006; Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East (eds. With Gillian Lewando-Hundt), Berghahn Books, 2005; and Conservation and Mobile Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (eds. with Marcus Colchester), Berghahn Press, 2002.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Development
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Environment
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Oman
Syria
Specialties
Health & Cult
Minorities & Dispossession
Nomadic Pastoralism
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Education
PhD | 1975 | Anthro | UCLA
Abstracts
Bedouin in Lebanon: The Transformation of a Way of Life or an Attitude? Syrian Tribes, National Politics and Transnationalism The Duty to be Generous (Karam: Contesting Rights-based Asylum in the Middle East) A Curious Twist: Transnational Women's LIves between Oman and the UAE Refuge in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean: Post-Colonial Transnational Migration or Arena of Containment?