My research centers on the anthropology of forced migration, development, and time in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Jordan. I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Sheffield Institute for Global Sustainable Development, conducting participatory action research on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Za'tari camp for the GCRF-funded project, COVID-19 PPE & Refugees. I also consult on development programs across the Middle East.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2465 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8423-9347 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@melgatter |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melissa-Gatter |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Other
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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UN Countries
Roles
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University of Sheffield
University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Postdoctoral Research Associate -
University of Sussex
University, Brighton, United Kingdom
Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development
Research
The Digital is Political in ‘Mediated Lives’: A Review of Mirjam Twigt’s ‘Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan’. By Mirjam Twigt
| Authors | Melissa Gatter |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Refugee Studies |
Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology. Edited by Irit Katz, Diana Martin and Claudio Minca
| Authors | Melissa Gatter |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Refugee Studies |
Restoring childhood: humanitarianism and growing up Syrian in Za`tari refugee camp
| Authors | Melissa N. Gatter |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Contemporary Levant | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Preserving order: narrating resilience as threat in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp
| Authors | Melissa Gatter |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Territory, Politics, Governance | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Resilience for Whom? Resiliency Humanitarianism and Everyday Resistance in a Carceral Camp
| Authors | Melissa Gatter |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Ethnos | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |