| Title | From Invalidation to Precarity |
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| Subtitle | A Story of an Upgrade |
| Contributor | Nadine Hassouneh(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0508.21 |
| Landing page | http://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0508/chapters/10.11647/obp.0508.21 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Nadine Hassouneh |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2026-04-29 |
| Long abstract | From Invalidation to Precarity: A Story of an Upgrade is a personal journey with appropriated identity, belonging, and intellect and the internal battle leading to reclaiming them. It is a journey with multiple scenes of invalidation performed by the ‘civilised western’ homo-sapiens upon the ‘uncivilised southern’ other. With stops in Switzerland, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Finland, this story written with dark ‘humour’ as an adaptation mechanism, demonstrates how precarity is an upgrade to some and exhibits how some positive experiences can and do awaken latent dramas and traumas caused by constant invalidation. |
| Print length | 14 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Nadine Hassouneh (PhD) is a post-doctoral researcher and Co-PI of the Kone Foundation funded “The Bad Project: Knowledge and Aid beyond the Project Economy” based in Tampere University, Finland and a Visiting Fellow at the Migration Institute of Finland. She has a PhD in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent (UK) and 10 years of experience working in the private and not-for-profit sectors in executive and analysis roles. She has published on displacement as well as precarious work in the humanitarian and development sectors. Her main research interests include (Internal) Displacement, Intra-State Deportations, Syrian Conflict, Security & Risk Studies, Critical Humanitarian Studies and Everyday Humanitarianism, Conflict and Security, (Stateless) Diaspora Studies, and Language & Context Specific Methodologies.