Melissa Gatter
@melissagatter.bsky.social
Asking questions about humanitarian aid + forced migration in MENA/US. Author of TIME AND POWER IN AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP: A NINE-TO-FIVE EMERGENCY. Asst Prof in Anthropology & International Development at University of Sussex.
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Also, here's me reminding people about the white supremacist and segregationist legacy of American immigration policy and how Trump fits into it.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
Trump’s obsession with immigration is really an obsession with segregation | Heba Gowayed
His policies are the latest instantiation of a centuries-long American tradition: laws meant to exclude people of color and privilege whiteness
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Also, here's me reminding people about the white supremacist and segregationist legacy of American immigration policy and how Trump fits into it.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
Thank you! Would love your thoughts 🤓
February 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Thank you! Would love your thoughts 🤓
I urge practitioners to refrain from using 'resilient' as a label to be imposed or taken away and that is tied to understandings of worth or deservingness. Instead where we see resilience, we should be looking for power. (4/4)
February 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I urge practitioners to refrain from using 'resilient' as a label to be imposed or taken away and that is tied to understandings of worth or deservingness. Instead where we see resilience, we should be looking for power. (4/4)
Resilience as a concept is still useful for 'seeing' power. Confronting resilience head on, I found that camp residents actually resist resilience narratives. AND I warn that this resistance should not be romanticized as resilience. (3/4)
February 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Resilience as a concept is still useful for 'seeing' power. Confronting resilience head on, I found that camp residents actually resist resilience narratives. AND I warn that this resistance should not be romanticized as resilience. (3/4)
I reflect on the everyday lives of 2 residents in Azraq camp in Jordan, where an aid worker is tasked with packaging their lives into 'success stories' - feeding into humanitarian resilience narratives. Resiliency humanitarianism is a problem, I argue, BUT.. (2/4)
February 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I reflect on the everyday lives of 2 residents in Azraq camp in Jordan, where an aid worker is tasked with packaging their lives into 'success stories' - feeding into humanitarian resilience narratives. Resiliency humanitarianism is a problem, I argue, BUT.. (2/4)
Reposted by Melissa Gatter
And not to give this more thought than it deserves, but it would be worth it for some enterprising journalist in the position to do so to ask Trump just who the US would buy Gaza from.
It could get him on the record endorsing a sovereign Palestinian state.
It could get him on the record endorsing a sovereign Palestinian state.
Trump says US is 'committed to buying and owning Gaza'
There has been global condemnation of his plan to take over the strip and move its Palestinians out.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
And not to give this more thought than it deserves, but it would be worth it for some enterprising journalist in the position to do so to ask Trump just who the US would buy Gaza from.
It could get him on the record endorsing a sovereign Palestinian state.
It could get him on the record endorsing a sovereign Palestinian state.
Link to the open access article: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
www.berghahnjournals.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Link to the open access article: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...