Humanitarian Policy Responses to the Refugee Issue

The project “Humanitarian Policy Responses to the Refugee Issue,” which was initiated by 2016/17 Mercator- IPC Fellow Hande Paker, proposes to analyze instances of encounters between refugees and hosts where hostility, exclusion, and fear are overcome. The aim is to study the way the encounters between newcomers and citizens are shaped in order to clearly define the nature of the interactions that take place between those who are in the position of the guest and those who are in the position of the host.