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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Humanitarian Approaches to Hunger -- 1. From the Classical Soup Kitchen to the Irish Famine -- 2. Justus Liebig and the Rise of Nutritional Science -- 3. Governing the Diet in Victorian Institutions -- 4. Colonialism and Communal Strength -- 5. Social Nutrition at the League of Nations -- 6. Military Feeding during World War II -- 7. The Medicalization of Hunger and the Postwar Period -- 8. High Modernism and the Development Decade -- 9. Low Modernism after Biafra -- 10. Small-Scale Devices and the Low Modernist Legacy -- Conclusion: On an Empty Stomach -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This paper develops the idea of infrastructural immobility, a dynamic within infrastructural systems whereby the movement of one thing relies upon the immobility of another. Drawing on fieldwork carried out in the Calais Jungle over the summer of 2016, it explores the relationship between what moves and what stays in processes of migration, arguing that if we are to make sense of camps as both spaces of confinement and spaces of mobility it is important to look at the role of infrastructures and the objects they contain. Infrastructures have been defined as 'matter that enables the movement of other matter' but it is rarely acknowledged that the matter that facilitates movement will often have to stay immobile. To carry cars, our roads need to stay fixed: they must not shift, rupture, buckle or break. To channel water, pipes need to be sealed and secured, remaining stationary and solid. This also applies to camps and other carceral junctions, which have their own balance of confinement and mobility shaped by material forms. This paper focuses on two objects in Calais – fencing and shipping containers – to illustrate the point.

Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, Fellow of St. Cross College Oxford, and Course Director for the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Previously, he worked as a development practitioner concerned with the education sector in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. The following interview discusses arguments and questions arising from his newest book (2020), historical and currents trends of hunger relief, important players, institutions and gender relations in the humanitarian sector – and more. It was conducted by Heike Wieters (Historical European Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Contemporary History, Bergische Universität Wuppertal) in a back-and-forth conversation via E-Mail.

Introduction: Humanitarian Dilemmas in a Mobile World / Tom Scott-Smith . - Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean Sea: Negotiating Political Differences / Hernan del Valle. - Detention of Migrants and Asylum-Seekers: The Challenge for Humanitarian Actors / Ioanna Kotsioni. - Be Near a Road: Humanitarian Practice and Displaced Persons in North Kivu / Sean Healy; Sandrine Tiller. - Aid and the Perpetuation of Refugee Camps: The Case of Dadaab in Kenya 1991-2011 / Hakim Chkam. - Continuity of Care for Migrant Populations in Southern Africa / Aurélie Ponthieu; Andrea Incerti. - The Journey to Dreamland Never Ends: A Refugee's Journey from Somalia to Sweden / Ali Hassan; Linn Biörklund

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