Humanitarian Studies & Policy

For more than a decade, I’ve researched humanitarian history and policy (British charity fundraising history, the international humanitarian system, and refugee protection in India).

Below you’ll find my publications on these themes organised via type and then topic.

1. Journal Articles & Book Chapters
   1. Refugees Studies
   2. Disasters and Crisis Governance
   3. Humanitarian History
2. Policy Briefs/Reports
   1. Refugees
   2. Disasters and Crisis Governance
3. Policy Books
   1. Humanitarian Effectiveness

I’ve linked to pdf versions where possible, but many are unfortunately behind a paywall. I am more than happy to send you them directly via email (send me a message via the contact form) or you can access most of them on my academia.edu site if you have an account: https://manchester.academia.edu/JessicaField

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Refugees Studies

• Tiwari, A.D., Johar, A., & Field, J. (2024) ‘Detention trap for Rohingya refugees in India: A (non)citizenship crisis promoted by law and policy?’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2376414
• Field, J., Dolma, T., & Johar, A., (2022), ‘Between host and home: cultural and activist lives of refugees in India’, in Rajan, I. (ed), Routledge Handbook on Refugees in India, (Routledge).

• Field, J., Pandit, A., & Rajdev, M. ‘Coping practices and gender relations: Rohingya refugee forced migrations from Myanmar to India’, Gender, Place & Culture, (2021) DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2021.1997938

• Field, J. and Johar, A. ‘Perspectives on “giving back”: A conversation between researcher and refugee’. In R. Mac Ginty, R. Brett and B. Vogel (eds.), The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork, Palgrave Macmillan (2021). Available here.

• Carpi, E., Field, J., Dicker, S., and Rigon, A. (2020) ‘From livelihoods to leisure and back: refugee ‘self-reliance’ as collective practices in Lebanon, India and Greece’, Third World Quarterly, 42:2, 421-440. Available here.

• Field, J. ‘Indian Civil Society and the Global Compact on Refugees’. In J. Field & S. Burra (eds.). The Global Compact on Refugees: Indian Perspectives and Experiences. UNHCR India & AWG (2020). Available here.

• Field, J., Tiwari, A., and Mookherjee, Y. (2019)‘Self-reliance as a concept and a spatial practice for urban refugees: Reflections from Delhi, India’, Journal of Refugee Studies, 33, 1, pp. 167–188. Available here.

Disasters and Crisis Governance

• Field, J. (2020),‘Caught between paper plans and Kashmir politics: disaster governance in Ladakh, India’, Politics & Governance, 82, 102226. ISSN 2183-2463. Available here.

• Vogel, B. and Field, J. (2020), ‘(Re)constructing borders through the governance of tourism and trade in Ladakh, India’, Political Geography, 82. Available here.

• Field, J. (2018) ‘Divided Disasters: Examining the impacts of the conflict-disaster nexus for distanced crises in the Philippines’, Disasters, 42, S2, pp. 265-286. Available here.

• Field, J., and Kelman, I., (2018) ‘The Impact on Disaster Governance of the Intersection of Environmental Hazards, Border Conflict and Disaster Responses in Ladakh, India’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 31, pp. 650-658. Available here.

• Kelman, I., Field, J., Suri, K., and Bhat, G.M. (2018) ‘Disaster Diplomacy for Jammu and Kashmir’, Intl. Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 31, pp. 1132-1140. Available here.

• Field, J. (2017) ‘What is appropriate and relevant assistance after a disaster? Accounting for culture(s) in the response to Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda’, Intl. Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 22, pp. 335-344. Available here.

Humanitarian History

• Field, J. (2024), ‘Empire of Charity: The British ‘helping hand’ in South African charity shops, 1971-1972’, in Gosling, G. C. & Millar, G. (eds.), Retail and Community: Business, Charity and the End of Empire, (Bristol Policy Press). Open Access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.14284471
• Field, J. (2020) ‘Serving “the Cause”: Cecil Jackson-Cole and the professionalisation of charity in post-War Britain’, Historical Research, Volume 93, Issue 260, May 2020, Pages 379–397. Available here.

• Field, J., (2015) ‘Consumption in lieu of Membership: Reconfiguring Popular Charitable Action in Post-World War II Britain’, Voluntas: Int’l Journal of Voluntary & Non-Profit Orgs, 27(2), pp. 979-997. Available here.

• Field, J. (2012) ‘United Nations Headquarters, New York: The Cultural-Political Economy of Space and Iconicity’, Journal of History and Cultures, 1, pp. 19-36.

Policy Briefs/Reports

Refugees

• Maung Thein Shwe, Jessica Field & Natalie Brinham. ‘Failure to Protect: The denial of status, detention and refoulement of Rohingya refugees in India‘, Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, Briefing Paper. (August 2021). (Available here).

• Tiwari A.D., Field, J. et al. ‘Locked in, Locked out: The impact of digital identity systems on Rohingya populations’, Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, Briefing Paper. (November 2020). (Available here).

• Tiwari A.D. and Field, J. ‘Biometric recording of “illegal migrant” refugee identity: The road towards discrimination’, Submission on Race, Borders and Digital Technologies. To inform the Special Rapporteur’s 2020 report to the United Nations General Assembly. (May, 2020). (Available here).

• Tiwari, A.D. and Field, J. ‘Shifting exclusivity of AADHAAR: Lines drawn in the sand between refugee and “illegal migrant”’, Submission for the People’s Tribunal on AADHAR-related issues, Rethink AADHAAR, Delhi, (Feb, 2020).
• Field, J. and Burra, S. (eds.), The Global Compact on Refugees: Indian Perspectives and Experiences, (Delhi: UNHCR India & Academicians’ Working Group, 2020). Available here.

• Tiwari, A., Field, J., and Mookherjee, Y. (2017) ‘Urban refugees in Delhi: Refugee networks, faith and well-being’, IIED Urban Humanitarian Crises Working Paper Series.

• Field, J., Tiwari, A., and Mookherjee, Y., (2017) ‘Urban refugees in Delhi: Identity, entitlements and self-reliance’, IIED Urban Humanitarian Crisis Working Paper Series. 

• Fiori, J. Rigon, A., Carpi, E., Dicker, S., Field, J., Mookherjee, Y., Tiwari, A., Espada, F., Boano, C. and Johnson, C. (Nov. 2017) ‘Refugee self-reliance in urban markets – Halba, Delhi, and Thessaloniki’, Humanitarian Affairs Team, Save the Children UK.

• Field, J. Tiwari, A. and Mookherjee, Y. (Oct. 2017) ‘What are important aspects of refugee self-reliance beyond the economic?’, University of Oxford, RSC Research in Brief, 7. 

• Field, J., Tiwari, A., and Mookherjee, Y., (July 2017) ‘Urban Refugees in Delhi: Self-reliance can’t be exclusively entrepreneurial’, International Institute for Environment & Development, Policy Brief Series: Urban Crisis Learning Fund.

Disasters and Crisis Governance

• UCL, University of Jammu, and O.P. Jindal Global University. (Sept 2019) ‘Increasing Resilience to Environmental Hazards in Border Conflict Zones: Community Action Agenda, Turktuk’, IRDR UCL.

• Field, J., Hemadri, R., Tiwari, A. D., Singh, P. and Rastogi, T., ‘Bureaucratic failings in the National Register of Citizens process have worsened life for the vulnerable in Assam’, Center for Human Rights Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University and the Development & Justice Initiative. April 2019. (Available here).

• UNHCR India and O.P. Jindal Global University, ‘Humanitarian’s Guide to Effectively Communicating with the Media’, UNHCR India, (August 2018).

Policy Books

Humanitarian Effectiveness

• Fiori, J., Espada, F., Field, J., and Dicker, S. The Echo Chamber: Results, Management and the Humanitarian Effectiveness Agenda, (London: Save the Children UK, 2016). Available here.