Qualifications:
BA(Hons) MA Cantab, MSc LSE, MA UNSW, PGD UAC, DPhil Oxf
Subject:
Refugee Studies
Role:
Non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellow
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is Junior Research Fellow in Refugee Studies at Lady Margaret Hall, and Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre, where she lectures on the MSc core course in ‘Research Methods in Forced Migration’ and convenes the MSc option in ‘Gender, Generation and Forced Migration.’ Elena completed her DPhil in Development Studies at the Refugee Studies Centre/Oxford Department of International Development in 2009. She also holds a BA (Hons) in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University, an MSc in Gender and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MA in International Relations from the University of New South Wales (Sydney), and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution and Mediation from the Universitat Abierta de Cataluna (Spain).
From February 2009 to September 2010 Elena was Senior Teaching Fellow in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where she convened MSc options in ‘Issues in Forced Migration’ and ‘Migration and Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa,’ in addition to lecturing on the MSc core course in ‘Migration and Development’. Until January 2009, she was Research Fellow in Diaspora Mobilisation and International Security at the Department of Politics and International Studies (also at the School of Oriental and African Studies); she has previously worked as a legal advisor for refugees in Cairo (with AMERA-Egypt), as a refugee case-worker with Amnesty International Australia’s Refugee Team, and as a legal clerk at the International Criminal Court, conducting research on crimes committed in Darfur (Sudan).
You can find out more about Elena on her RSC webpage.
Research interests:
- Gender, Islam and Asylum
- Representations of Muslim Asylum-Seekers and Refugees
- Faith-based Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Displacement
- International Adoptions and Abductions of Refugee Children
- Stateless Diasporas
Selected publications:
Sole-authored Books and Edited Volumes
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival, Syracuse University Press, Summer/Autumn 2013.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E, Loescher, G, Long, K and Sigona, N (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, forthcoming with Oxford University Press, 2014.
Special Issues
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (Ed) ‘Faith-Based Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Displacement’, Journal of Refugee Studies, 2011, Vol. 24(3)
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Lacroix, T. (Eds) ‘Refugees’ Diasporic Memories: individual experiences, collective processes, political implications’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2013.
Articles and Chapters
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘Gender and Forced Migration’ in E Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, G Loescher, K Long and N Sigona (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, forthcoming with Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘Inter-Generational Negotiations of Religious Identity, Belief and Practice: Child, youth and adult perspectives from three cities,’ in J Garnett and A Harris (Eds.) Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis, Ashgate, forthcoming 2013.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. with Y M Qasmiyeh ‘A Conversation between Refugee Camps and Cities,’ in J Garnett and A Harris (Eds.) Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis, Ashgate, forthcoming 2013.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘Transnational Abductions and Transnational Jurisdictions? The politics of ‘protecting’ female Muslim refugees in Spain,’ Gender, Place and Culture, iFirst article 2013.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. 'Transnational Childhood and Adolescence: Mobilising Sahrawi identity and politics across time and space,' Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(5), May 2013.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘The Intergenerational Politics of “Travelling Memories’: Sahrawi refugee youth remembering home-land and home-camp,’ Journal of Intercultural Studies, iFirst article February 2013.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. 'Invisible Refugees and/or Overlapping Refugeedom? Protecting Sahrawis and Palestinians Displaced by the 2011 Libyan Uprising,' International Journal of Refugee Law, 2012.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. 'Transnational Childhood and Adolescence: Mobilising Sahrawi identity and politics across time and space,' Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35, January 2012.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. Invisible refugees: protecting Sahrawis and Palestinians displaced by the 2011 Libyan uprising, UNHCR New Issues in Refugee Research, No. 225, November 2011.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘Introduction: Faith-Based Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Displacement.’ Journal of Refugee Studies, 24(3):429-439, September 2011.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. 'Histories of Displacement: Intersections between ethnicity, gender and class', Journal of North African Studies, 16(1):31-47, March 2011.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘The Pragmatics of Performance: Putting ‘faith’ in aid in the Sahrawi refugee camps,’ Journal of Refugee Studies, 2011, Vol. 24(3).
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘Paradoxes of Refugees’ Educational Migration: Promoting self-sufficiency or renewing dependency?’ , Comparative Education, 2011, Vol. 47(3).
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Qasmiyeh, Y.M. ‘Asylum-Seekers and Refugees from the Middle East and North Africa: Negotiating politics, religion and identity in the UK.’ Journal of Refugee Studies, 2010, Vol. 23(3): 294-314.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘Education, Migration and Internationalism: Situating Muslim Middle Eastern and North African students in Cuba.’ The Journal of North African Studies, 2010, Vol. 15(2): 137-155.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘“Ideal’ Refugee Women and Gender Equality Mainstreaming: “Good Practice’ for Whom?’ Refugee Survey Quarterly, 2010, Vol. 29(2): 64-84.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. “When the Self becomes Other: Representations of gender, Islam and the politics of survival in the Sahrawi refugee camps,’ in D. Chatty and B. Findlay (Eds.) Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2010. Pp. 171-196.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘Concealing Violence Against Women in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps: The politicisation of victimhood,’ in H. Bradby and G. Lewando-Hundt (Eds.) Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health: The Sociology and Anthropology of Suffering. Farnham: Ashgate. 2010.
- Crivello, G. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘The Ties that Bind: Sahrawi Children and the Mediation of Aid in Exile,’ in D. Chatty (Ed.) Deterritorialised Afghan and Sahrawi Youth: Refugees from the Margins of the Middle East. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2010. Pp. 83-116.
- Chatty, D., Fiddian-Qasmiyeh E. and Crivello, G. ‘Identity With/out Territory: Sahrawi Refugee Youth in Transnational Space,’ in D. Chatty (Ed.) Deterritorialised Afghan and Sahrawi Youth: Refugees from the Margins of the Middle East. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2010. Pp. 35-82.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘Representing Sahrawi Refugees’ ‘Educational Displacement’ to Cuba: Self-sufficient agents or manipulated victims in conflict?’ Journal of Refugee Studies, 2009, Vol. 22(3): 323-350.
- Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. ‘Relocating: The Asylum Experience in Cairo.’ Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2006, Vol. 8(2): 295-318.
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