Dawn Chatty
Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration; Director, RSC
Bio
Professor Dawn 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.
Professor Chatty is both an academic anthropologist and a practitioner, having carefully developed her career in universities in the United States, Lebanon, Syria and Oman, as well as with a number of development agencies such as the UNDP, UNICEF, FAO and IFAD. After taking her undergraduate degree with honours at UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles), she took a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Netherlands. She returned to UCLA to take her PhD in Social Anthropology under the late Professor Hilda Kuper.
Following the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, Professor Chatty spent the period October 2005 - September 2007 researching and writing a manuscript on Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Middle East. The volume was published by Cambridge University Press (May 2010) with the title Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East
Video: Forced migration in the Middle East
Publications
Chatty, D., Mansour, N. and Yassin, N. (2013) Bebouin in Lebanon: Social Discrimination, Political Exclusion, and Compromised Health Care. Social Science & Medicine, Advance access.
Chatty, D. and Sternberg T. (eds.) (2012) Modern Pastoralism and Conservation: Old Problems, New Challenges. Beijing: Intellectual Property Publishing House.
Chatty, D. (2011) Social Cohesion in an Impermanent Landscape: Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Arab Middle East. In: Panayi, P. and Virdee, P. (eds.) Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration during the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge.
Chatty, D. and Mansour, N. (2011) Unlocking Protracted Displacement: An Iraqi Case Study. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 30 (4), 50-83.
Chatty, D. (2010) Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chatty, D. (2010) Introduction: Bedouin in Lebanon: Migration, Settlement, Health Care and Policy. International Journal of MIgration Health and Social Care. 6 (3), 19-20.
Chatty, D. (2010) Bedouin in Lebanon: The Transformation of a Way of Life or an Attitude? International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care.
Chatty, D. (ed.) (2010) Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press.
Chatty, D. (2010) Introduction: Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East. In: Chatty, D. (ed.) Deterritorialized Youth: Afghan and Sahrawi Refugee Young People at the Margins of the Middle East. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press.
Chatty, D. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. and Crivello, G. (2010) Identity With/out Territory: Sahrawi refugees in Transnational Space. In: Chatty, D. (ed.) Deterritorialized Youth: Afghan and Sahrawi Refugee Young People at the Margins of the Middle East. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press.
Chatty, D. and Finlayson, B. (eds.) (2010) Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chatty, D. (2010) Introduction to Forced Migration in the Middle East and Epilogue. In: Chatty D. and Finlayson B. (eds.) Dispossession and Displacement in the Middle East and North Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chatty, D. (2010) Palestinian Refugee Youth: Agency and Aspiration. Refugee Studies Quarterly. 28 (2-3), 318-338.
Chatty, D. (2009) The Bedouin in Contemporary Syria. Middle East Journal. 64 (1), 29-49.
Chatty, D. (2009) Rituals of Royalty and the Elaboration of Ceremony in Oman: View from the Edge. International Journal of Middle East Studies. 41 (1), 39-58.
Chatty, D. (2009) Los Jovenes: Refugiados Palestinos. Revista De Análisis Y Debate Sobre Oriente Próximo Y El Meditarráneo. 2, 53-64.
Chatty, D. (2008) Report on the Conference: Forced Migration and Dispossession in the Middle East. Journal of the British Academy.
Chatty, D. and Sternberg, T. (2008) Mobile Indigenous People. Forced Migration Review. 31, 25-26.
Chatty, D. (2007) Researching refugee youth in the Middle East: reflections on the importance of comparative research. Journal of Refugee Studies. 19 (2), 265-280.
Chatty, D. (2007) Mobile peoples: pastoralists and herders at the beginning of the 21st Century. Reviews in Anthropology. 36 (1).
Chatty, D. (2007) Tribal structures in the Badia of Syria: alternative perceptions of authority, management and control. In: Dupret, B. Ghazzal Z.and Courbage, Y. (eds.) La Syrie Au Présent.Paris: Actes Sud Sindbad.
Chatty, D. and Hundt, G. (eds.) (2007) Atfal Filastiin wa Al-Hijra:Al-‘Aish fi Zull al-Hijra al-Qasriyyah fi Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (Children of Palestine). Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies and Arab Resource Collective.
Chatty, D. (ed.) (2006) Nomadic societies in the Middle East and North Africa: entering the 21st century. Leiden: Brill.
Chatty, D. (2006) Adapting to biodiversity conservation: the mobile pastoral Harasiis. In: Kapiszewski, A. Al-Salmi A. and Pikulski A. (eds.) Modern Oman: Studies in Politics, Economy and Environment. Wydawca: Kscagarnia Akademicka.
Chatty, D. (2006 ) Building schools for mobile people: the Harasiis in the Sultanate of Oman. In: Dyer C. (ed.) The Education of Nomadic Peoples: Issues, Provision and Prospects. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press.
Chatty, D. (2006) Introduction. In: Chatty D. (ed.) Nomadic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century. Leiden: Brill.
Chatty, D. (2006) Multinational oil exploitation and social investment: mobile pastoralists in the Sultanate of Oman in Chatty D. (ed.) Nomadic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century. Leiden: Brill.
Chatty, D. (2006) Assumptions of Degradation and Misuse: The Bedouin in the Syrian Badia. In: Chatty D. (ed.) Nomadic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century. Leiden: Brill.
Chatty, D. Crivello, G. and Hundt, G. (2005 ) Theoretical and methodological challenges of studying refugee children in the Middle East and North Africa: young Palestinian, Afghan and Sahrawi refugees. Journal of Refugee Studies. 18 (4), 387-409.
Chatty, D. and Hundt G. (eds.) (2005) Children of Palestine: experiencing forced migration in the Middle East. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
Chatty, D. and Farah, R. (2005) Palestinian Refugees. In: Gibney M. and Hansen R. (eds.) Migration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present. Oxford and Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio.
Chatty, D. Baas, S. and Fleig, A. (2004) Participatory processes towards co-management of natural resources in pastoral areas of the Middle East: A training of trainers source book. Rome: FAO.
Chatty, D. Hundt, G. Thabet A. and Abuateya, H. (2004) Advocating multi-disciplinarity in studying complex emergencies: the limitations of a psychological approach to understanding how young people cope with prolonged conflict in Gaza. Journal of Biosocial Science. 36 (4), 417-31.
Chatty, D. (2003) ‘Environmentalism in the Syrian Badia: the assumptions of degradation, protection and Bedouin misuse’ in D Anderson and E Berglund (eds), Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
Chatty, D. (ed.) (2003) Mobile peoples and conservation: an introduction. Journal of Nomadic Peoples. 7 (1) and Journal of Biological Conservation. 13 (2).
Chatty, D. and Joubert R. (eds.) (2002) Alternative perceptions of authority and control: the desert and the Ma’moura of Syria. The Arab World Geographer. 5 (2).
Chatty, D. and Colchester, M. (eds.) (2002) Conservation and mobile indigenous peoples: displacement, forced settlement, and sustainable development. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
Chatty, D. (2002) L’activité féminine en Oman: entre choix individual et contraintes culturelles. In: Lavergne M. and Dumortier B. (eds.) L’Oman Contemporain: État, Territoire, Identité. Paris: Karthala Press.
Chatty, D. (2002) Disseminating findings from research with Palestinian children and adolescents. Forced Migration Review. 15, 40-43.
Chatty, D. (2002) Adapting to multinational oil exploration: the mobile pastoralists of Oman. In: Leder S. and Streck B. (eds.) Mitteilungen des SFB Differenz und Integration: Nomadismus aus der Perspektiveder Begrifflichkeit. Centre for Oriental Studies (OWZ), Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Chatty, D. (2002) Animal reintroduction projects in the Middle East: conservation without a human face. In: Chatty D. and Colchester M. (eds.) Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement, and Sustainable Development. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
Chatty, D. (2002) Introduction: conservation and mobile peoples. In: Chatty D. and Colchester M. (eds.). Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement, and Sustainable Development. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
Chatty, D. (2002) Mobile peoples and conservation. Anthropology Today. 18 (4), 1-2.
Chatty, D. (2001) Harasiis marriage, divorce and companionship. In: Bowen D. and Early E. (eds.) Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East (revised edition). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Chatty, D. (2001) Bedouin economics and the modern wage market: the case of the Harasiis of Oman. Nomadic Peoples. 4 (2).
Chatty, D. and Rabo A. (eds.) (2001) Tanthiim Al-Nisa’: Al-Jamaa’aat al-Nisaiya al-Rasmiya wa Ghayr al-Rasmiya fii al-Sharaq al-Awsat. Damascus: Al Mada Press.
Chatty, D. (2000) Integrating participation into research and consultancy: a conservation example from Arabia. Social Policy and Administration. 34 (4), 408-418.
Chatty, D. and Rabo, A. (1997) (eds.) Organising women: informal and formal women’s groups in the Middle East. Oxford: Berg Publishers.
Chatty, D. (1996) Mobile Pastoralists: Development Planning and Social Change in Oman. New York: Columbia University Press.
Further Information
Projects with which Dr Chatty is affiliated:
www.nomadicpeoples.info
www.danadeclaration.org
www.nomadsinoman.com
www.bedouinhealth.org
Contact
T: +44 1865 281715
E: dawn.chatty@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Personal website:
www.dawnchatty.com
Current projects:
Mobile peoples and conservation
Mobile peoples and the politics of oil
Improving access to and quality of healthcare for marginal peoples: the Bedouin of Lebanon
Unlocking crises of protracted displacement for refugees and internally displaced persons
Dispossession and forced migration in the Middle East: community cohesion in an impermanent landscape
Iraq’s refugees: predicaments, perceptions and aspirations
Children in armed conflict and prolonged displacement
Associated events:
Workshop – North Africa in transition: mobility, forced migration and humanitarian crises
Mobile peoples and conservation: crossing the disciplinary divide
Nomads, Territoriality and Mobility
Palestinian Refugees
Protracted Crises: Iraqi Refugees
Refugees, exiles and other forced migrants in the late Ottoman Empire
Workshop – Palestinian refugees and international law
Regional presentation of Forced Migration Policy Briefing 4: Iraq's refugees - beyond 'tolerance'
Dispossession and displacement: Forced migration in the Middle East and Africa
Unlocking Protracted Displacement of Refugees and IDPs: Somali and Iraqi displacements and policy responses
