Hassouneh, N. “From Invalidation to Precarity: A Story of an Upgrade” (Accepted). In Burlyuk, O. and Rahbari, L. (Eds.) in Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity in the Global North Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
Abstract
From Invalidation to Precarity: A Story of an Upgrade is a personal journey with appropriated identity, belonging, and intellect and the internal battle leading to reclaiming them. It is a journey with multiple scenes of invalidation performed by the ‘civilised western’ homo-sapiens upon the ‘uncivilised southern’ other. With stops in Switzerland, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Finland, this story written with dark ‘humour’ as an adaptation mechanism, demonstrates how precarity is an upgrade to some and exhibits how some positive experiences can and do awaken latent dramas and traumas caused by constant invalidation.
Hassouneh, Nadine and Pascucci, Elisa. (2022). “Nursing Trauma, Harvesting Data: Refugee Knowledge and Refugee Labour in the International Humanitarian Regime” in Refugee Scholarship and Refugee Knowledges of Europe (M.Kmak and H.Björklund. Eds.), Routledge Open Access
Abstract
In this chapter, we explore the forms of knowledge that people with a refugee background bring to what are known as refugee and humanitarian regimes, namely the assemblages of international laws, institutions, and apparatuses that are tasked with providing protection and assistance to refugees. While rhetorically built upon humanitarian care for vulnerable lives, such apparatuses, we argue, are reproduced by the racialized and localized knowledges and labour of “refugees caring for refugees”. The chapter draws on interviews with Syrian aid workers employed by international aid organizations and their local partners during the conflict between 2012 and 2019. Theorizing the intimate relation between refugee knowledges and humanitarianism, and examining some of the overlaps between academic research and humanitarian policy practices, we offer an understanding of the international aid regime as founded on the knowledges of refugees that this regime has all too often officially denied.
Hassouneh, Nadine. (2018). “Muting Refugees, Voicing Diasporas: The Case of the Palestinians.” in World of Diasporas: Different Perceptions on the Concept of Diaspora. (H.S.Majhaila & S.Doğan, Eds.). Leiden: Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004388048_004
Abstract
Not all diasporic experiences have been perceived and studied under a diaspora-focused lens; some diasporas have been made invisible and their voices made inaudible, of which the Palestinians are a sounding example. While there are a few authors who studied the Palestinians as a diaspora, there remain many gaps that require filling and various questions that require answering. Topics related to how, and to what extent, labelling influences lives, along with the ways some lives are researched and investigated have been surprisingly quiet, so far. The inaudibility of the Palestinian diasporic experience paralleled with the audibility of their experience, as one firmly twinned with refugeedom is a phenomenon worth exploring.