Professor Dawn Chatty
About
Professor Chatty is a social anthropologist whose ethnographic interests lie in the Middle East, particularly with nomadic pastoral tribes and refugee young people. Her research interests include a number of forced migration and development issues such as conservation-induced displacement, tribal resettlement, modern technology and social change, gender and development and the impact of prolonged conflict on refugee young people.
She is both an academic anthropologist and a practitioner, having worked in universities in the USA, Lebanon, Syria and Oman, as well as with a number of development agencies such as the UNDP, UNICEF, FAO and IFAD. She was Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford from 2011 to 2014.
Expertise
- Middle East ethnography (culture and society)
- Nomadic peoples and conservation
- Dispossession and migration in the Middle East
- Gender and development
- Children and armed conflict (Palestinian, Sahrawi and Afghan refugee children)
Selected publications
- Refuge in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean: Spaces of containment or places of choice? (2024)
- Displaced Syrians and the Global Compact on Refugees | Workshop Statement (2022)
- Dana Declaration+20 Manifesto on Mobile Peoples and Conservation (2022)
- Has the Tide Turned? Refuge and Sanctuary in the Euro-Mediterranean Space (2020)
- Commentary: When Hospitality turns into Hostility in Prolonged Forced Migration (2020)
- Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State (2018)
- The Duty to be Generous (karam): Alternatives to rights-based asylum in the Middle East. (2017)
Media experience
Professor Chatty has wide experience of both broadcast and print media.
Recent media work
Languages
English, Arabic