Arar Publishes Article on “Humanitarian Fiction” in Refugee Hosting Practices
Posted: 4/16/2025 (CSDE Research)
Refugee studies research has typically identified “hosts” as being distinct and opposite from refugees, but recent scholarship has brought this typology into question. In a recent study in the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, CSDE Affiliate Rawan Arar (Law, Societies, and Justice) critically examines the ‘host’ label within refugee studies by considering multiple scales of analysis. The study shows how individuals confront the refugee/host binary in their daily lives, and introduces the concept of humanitarian fiction to explain the limits of previously used definitions. Read the study here.