My research centers on the anthropology of forced migration, humanitarianism, and time in camps and spaces of displacement in Jordan, the US, and beyond. I am the author of Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency (AUC Press, 2023), winner of the 2023 Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4773 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8423-9347 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissagatter/ | |
| https://twitter.com/melgatter | |
| Research Gate | 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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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Geographies
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UN Countries
Roles
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University of Sussex
University, Brighton, United Kingdom
Assistant Professor in Anthropology and International Development
Research
Resilience for Whom? Resiliency Humanitarianism and Everyday Resistance in a Carceral Camp
| Authors | Melissa Gatter |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Ethnos |
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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 |
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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 |
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