Books, Edited Collections, and Special Issues
The author of over 60 articles and chapters and the author and editor of 8 books to date, Elena's publications explore displacement, refuge, humanitarianism, religion, South-South relations, representation and the politics of knowledge. Across research monographs, collaborative works and major edited collections, they bring refugee and Southern perspectives into wider conversations about migration, care, responsibility, inequality and social justice.
The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival
Syracuse University Press 2014
South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development: Views from the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East
Routledge, 2015
The Southern Eye: Co-Seeing as a Way of Archiving Displacement
Broken Sleep Books, 2024 (with Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Saiful Huq Omi)
The Oxford Handbook of Refugee & Forced Migration Studies
OUP, 2014 (Ed. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long & Nando Sigona)
Intersections of Religion and Migration: Issues at the Global Crossroads
Palgrave, 2016 (Ed. with Jennifer Saunders and Susanna Snyder)
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration
OUP, 2027 (Ed. with Anna Rowlands - forthcoming)
Editor and Co-Editor of major Journal Special Issues
"Southern Responses to Displacement," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2025
“Recentering the South in Studies of Migration," Migration and Society, 2020
“Hospitality and Hostility Towards Migrants: Global Perspectives,” Migration and Society, 2018
"Refugee and Diaspora Memories," Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2013
“Faith-Based Humanitarianism in Contexts of Forced Displacement,” Journal of Refugee Studies, 2011
Book Summaries
The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival: Examines how ideas of gender equality, secularism and the ‘ideal refugee’ are produced and mobilised within the politics of humanitarianism and Sahrawi survival.
South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development: Explores refugee education across the Global South, asking how South-South scholarship programmes reshape ideas of self-sufficiency, solidarity, dependency and humanitarianism.
The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies: Brings interdisciplinary perspectives together to critically examine the concepts, experiences, policies and politics shaping refugee and forced migration studies.
Intersections of Religion and Migration: Issues at the Global Crossroads: Examines how religion shapes, and is itself transformed by, diverse forms and experiences of migration across different geographical and religious contexts.
Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations: Rethinks ‘the South’ and South-South relations through histories and practices of cooperation, migration, humanitarianism, activism, conflict and decolonisation.
Refuge in a Moving World: Tracing Refugee and Migrant Journeys Across Disciplines: Brings research, creative practice and lived experience into conversation to explore how people experience, negotiate and respond to migration and displacement across an unequal world.
The Southern Eye: Co-Seeing Displacements: Brings photography and prose into dialogue to explore displacement, memory and belonging through collaborative forms of seeing and representation.
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration: Examines how religion shapes contemporary migration and displacement, and how migration in turn transforms religious thought, practice, ethics and belonging.