Dawn Chatty

Dawn Chatty is Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Forced Migration and former Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She is also Fellow of the British Academy. Her research interests include coping and resilience of refugee youth; nomadic pastoralism and conservation; gender and development; health, illness, and culture. She is the author of Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2010), From Camel to Truck (White Horse Press, 2013) and Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State (Hurst Publishers, 2018). She has edited numerous books including Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East (Berghahn Books, 2010); Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century (Leiden, Brill, 2006); Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East (Berghahn Books, 2005) and Conservation and Mobile Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (Berghahn Press, 2002).