Upcoming Book Release: Architecture of Migration by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

Forthcoming from Duke University Press, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (2023) is the latest publication from Professor Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, the co-director of Insurgent Domesticities and member the Refugee Cities working group. Expected to be released in December, 2023, Architecture of Migration critically challenges humanitarian narratives in architecture, planning, and global crisis management. Ethnographic research conducted with camp residents and aid workers exposes the realities within supposedly temporary camps, now turned into lasting urban settlements. The text’s recounting of histories detail the spatial stories of lives affected by colonialism and political, economic, and environmental turmoil. Siddiqi provides a unique examination of how neoliberal policies impede the development of spaces for the world's vulnerable populations.