Elena Fiddian Qasmiyeh: 2 books

Book cover of The Ideal Refugees

The Ideal Refugees

Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival

by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014

Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently been represented as ideal in nature: uniquely secular and democratic spaces, and characterized by gender equality. Drawing on extensive research with...
Book cover of South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development

South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development

Views from the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East

by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015

This ground-breaking book is one of the first to analyse the important phenomenon of South-South educational migration for refugees. It focuses particularly on South-South scholarship programmes in Cuba and Libya, which have granted free education to children, adolescents and young adults from two...
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