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.

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Geographies

Roles

  • 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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1 Journal Article

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
3 Journal Article

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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4 Journal Article

Preserving order: narrating resilience as threat in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp

Authors Melissa Gatter
Year 2021
Journal Name Territory, Politics, Governance
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5 Journal Article

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