Journal Articles
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh E. and Carpi E. (eds) (2025) Special Issue on ‘Southern-Led Responses to Displacement’, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 6 (1).
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh E. and Carpi E. (2025) ‘Introduction: South-South Solidarities and Responses to Displacement’, in Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 6 (1): 1-12.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh E. and Carpi E. (2025) ‘Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Brazil: A Viable Alternative Strategy to Aid?’, in Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 6 (1): 13-23.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2024) ‘Manifesto for Bread and Roses’, in Migration and Society, 7 (1).
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Berg M. L., and Thieme T. (2024) ‘Editorial: Global and Intersecting Solidarities’, in Migration and Society, 7 (1).
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2023) “Regional Approaches to Displacement in the Middle East,” in IASFM19, Editora Universitária Leopoldianum.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2021) ‘The right and role of critiquing the contemporary patchwork of protection,’ International Migration, 59 (4): 261-264.
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh (2020) ‘Refugees’ Pandemic Responses in a Palestinian Camp in Lebanon,’ Current History, 119 (821): 349-355. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2020.119.821.349
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2020) Responding to Precarity in Baddawi Camp in the Era of Covid-19. Journal of Palestine Studies
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. Berg, M. and Waters, J. (eds) (2020) Special Issue on ‘Recentering the South in Studies of Migration‘ Migration and Society, Issue 3.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2020) ‘Recentering the South in Studies of Migration,’ Introduction to the Special Issue, Migration and Society, 3(1): 1-18.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. with J. Fiori (2020) ‘Migration, Humanitarianism and the Politics of Knowledge,’ Migration and Society, 3(1): 180-189
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. with F. Carella (2020) ‘The Position of “the South” and “South-South migration” in Policy and Programmatic Responses to Different Forms of Migration,‘ Migration and Society, 3(1) 203-212
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2019) ‘The Changing Faces of UNRWA: From the global to the local,‘ Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 1(1) (Open Access)
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2019) ‘Looking Forward: Disasters at 40,’ Disasters, 43(S1):S36-S60 (Open Access here).
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘Representations of Displacement in the Middle East,’ Public Culture, 28(3).
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘Palestinian and Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Sharing Space, Electricity and the Sky,’ Refugee History, 21 Dec. 2016.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘Refugee-Refugee Relations in Contexts of Overlapping Displacement,’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, ‘Spotlight On’ The Urban Refugee “Crisis”. 25 Nov. 2016.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘Refugees Hosting Refugees‘, Forced Migration Review, 53: 25-27. 28 September 2016. Read here or listen to audio here.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘On the Threshold of Statelessness: Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure,’ Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39(2): 301-321.
Ager, J., Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Ager, A. (2015) ‘Local Faith Communities and the Promotion of Resilience in Contexts of Humanitarian Crisis,‘ Journal of Refugee Studies, 28 (2): 202- 221. *Selected by OUP as one of 6 “highly cited articles” to showcase “the impressive body of research” published in the OUP Journal of Refugee Studies.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (ed) (2011) Special Issue on “Faith Based Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Migration,” Journal of Refugee Studies, 24(3), Sep. 2011.
Books and Book Chapters
Rowlands, A. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (eds) (2025) Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration, New York: Oxford University Press. (in preparation)
Qasmiyeh, Y. M., Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Omi, S. H. (2024) The Southern Eye: Co-Seeing Displacements, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Broken Sleep Books.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2024) “Foreword”, in Murrani, S. Ruptured Architecture: Spatial Practices of War and Protection in Iraq 2003-2020. London: Bloomsbury.
Rowlands, A. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2023) “Introduction: Religion and Contemporary Migration”, in Rowlands, A. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (eds) Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration, New York: Oxford University Press. (in preparation)
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2023) ‘Recentering the South in Studies of Migration’ in Crawley, H. and Teye, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality, London: Palgrave/Springer.
Qasmiyeh, Y. M., Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2023) Writing the Refugee Camp: A Southern-Southern Correspondence’ in Crawley, H. and Teye, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality, London: Palgrave/Springer.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2023) “Regional Approaches to Displacement in the Middle East” in Jubilut L. L., Martins Casagrande M., Soldano Garcez G., Assenço Creuz D., Oliveira Ribeiro F. (eds), IASFM19 19th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Conference – Keynote Speeches, Santos: Editora Universitária Leopoldianum.
Dafa, L. M. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2023) “Care, Control and Crisis: Sahrawi youth as refugees and migrants,” in Rosen, R., Chase, E., Crafter, S., Glockner, V. and Mitra, S. (eds.) Crisis for Whom? Critical global perspectives on childhood, care and migration, London: UCL Press.
Dafa, L. M. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2023) “Cuidado, control y crisis: Las/os jóvenes saharauis como refugiados y migrantes,” in Rosen, R., Chase, E., Crafter, S., Glockner, V. and Mitra, S. (eds.) ¿Crisis según quién? London: UCL Press.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Trotta, S. “Religions and Forced Migration.” In The State of the Evidence in Religions and Development, edited by Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI), 65-73. Washington, DC: JLI, 2022, 61-68
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2020) “Shifting the Gaze: Palestinian and Syrian refugees sharing and contesting space in Lebanon,” in Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E (ed) Refuge in a Moving World: Refugee and migrant journeys across disciplines, London, UCL Press. (Open Access)
Carpi, E. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2020) “A Sociology of Knowledge on Humanitarianism and Displacement: The cases of Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Turkey,” in Salvatore, A., Hanafi, S. and Obuse, K. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Carpi, E. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2020) “Keeping the Faith? Examining the roles of faith and secularism in “Syrian Diaspora Organisations” in Lebanon,” in Dijkzeul, D. and Fauser, M. (eds) Diaspora Organisations in International Affairs, Oxford: Routledge.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2019) “Memories and Meanings of Camps (and more than camps),” in Farrier, D., Woolley, A., Stonebridge, L., Durrant, S. and Cox, E. (eds) Refugee Imaginaries: Contemporary Research Across the Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Pacitto, J. (2019) “Southern-led Faith-Based Humanitarian Responses to Displacement: Insights for the Global North”, in Schewel, B. and Wilson, E (eds.) Religion and European Society: A Primer. Oxford: Wiley.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Daley, P. (eds.) (2018) Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations. London: Routledge.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2018) ‘Southern-led Responses to Displacement: Modes of South-South cooperation?,’ in Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Daley, P. (Eds) Handbook of South-South Relations, Routledge, Chapter 18.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Daley, P. (2018) ‘Conceptualising the South and South-South Encounters’ in Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Daley, P. (Eds) Handbook of South-South Relations, Routledge, Chapter 1.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Pacitto, J. (2018) “Southern-led faith-based responses to refugees: Insights for the global North,” in Schewel, B. and Wilson, E. (eds) Religion and European Society, Oxford: Wiley.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Lewis, C. and Cole, G (2017) “‘Faithing’ Gender and Responses to Violence in Refugee Communities: Insights from the Sahrawi Refugee Camps and the Democratic Republic of Congo,” in Krause, U. and Buckley-Zistel, S. (eds) Gender, Violence, Refugees. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2015 and 2017) South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development: Views from Cuba, North Africa and the Middle East. Oxford: Routledge. *published in paperback in 2017*
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Pacitto, J. (2015) “Writing the Other into Humanitarianism: A conversation between ‘South-South’ and ‘faith-based’ humanitarianisms,” in Z. Sezgin and D. Dijkzeul (eds.) The New Humanitarianisms in International Practice: Emerging Actors and Contested Principles. Oxford: Routledge.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Loescher, G., Long, K. and Sigona, N. (eds)(2014 and 2016)The Oxford Handbook of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press. *Paperback published in 2016*
Qasmiyeh, Y. M. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2013) “Refugee Camps and Cities in Conversation,” in Jane Garnett and Alana Harris (eds) Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis, Farnham: Ashgate. pp. 131-143.
Reports, blogs and other publications
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2025) South-South Collaboration in Diplomatic and Humanitarian Responses to Conflict and Displacement (London: UCL/MRU and Doha: CHS).
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Carella, F. (2021) The Position of “the South” and “South-South Migration” in Policy and Programmatic Responses to Different Forms of Migration: An Interview with Francesco Carella
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Fiori, J. (2020) Migration, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Knowledge – An Interview with Juliano Fiori
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., (2020) Introduction: Recentering the South in Studies of Migration
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., (2019) Exploring refugees’ conceptualisations of humanitarianism
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2018) Thinking through ‘the global South’ and ‘Southern-responses to displacement’: An introduction
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E., Daley, P. (2018) Conceptualising the global South and South–South encounters
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2018) Histories and spaces of Southern-led responses to displacement
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2018) Southern Responses to Displacement: Background and introduction to our mini blog series.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2018) Pan-Arabism
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2018) Refugee-Refugee Humanitarianism
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2018) Faith-based Humanitarianism
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2018) Internationalism and Solidarity
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2017) ‘Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon face an uncertain 2017,’ The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2017.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Qasmiyeh, Y.M. (2017) ‘Refugee-Refugee Solidarity in Death and Dying,‘ 2017 Venice Bienalle Tunisian Pavillion: The Absence of Paths, May 2017.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘Hospitality and Hostility: The roles of established refugees in a crisis.’ YouTube video of Elena’s UCL Lunch Hour Lecture, 1 Nov. 2016. Watch it here.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (ed) (2016) Gender, Religion and Humanitarian Responses to Refugees, MRU Policy Brief.
Gabiam, N. and Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2016) ‘Palestinians and the Arab Uprisings: Political Activism and Narratives of Home, Homeland and Home-Camp’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2016.1202750
Saunders, J., Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Snyder, S. (eds) (2016) Intersections of Religion and Migration: Issues at the Global Crossroads, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (2015) “Refugees helping refugees: How a Palestinian camp in Lebanon is welcoming Syrians”, The Conversation, 4 November 2015.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Ager, A. (eds) (2013) Local Faith Communities and the promotion of resilience in humanitarian situations, RSC/JLI Working Paper 90, Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre, February 2013.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Pacitto, J. (2013) Writing the ‘Other’ into humanitarian discourse: Framing theory and practice in South-South humanitarian responses to forced displacement. Oxford: RSC Working Paper No. 93.
Featured Photo: Mural in Baddawi camp, N. Lebanon, wishing passersby a “Ramadan Kareem” (Happy Ramadan). (c) E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, 2018
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