Za'atari refugee cookbook: Relevance, challenges and design considerations

Karen E. Fisher; Reem Talhouk; Katya Yefimova; Dalya Al-Shahrabi; Eiad Yafi; Sam Ewald; Rob Comber

doi:10.1145/3027063.3053235

Za'atari refugee cookbook: Relevance, challenges and design considerations

Karen E. Fisher, Reem Talhouk, Katya Yefimova, Dalya Al-Shahrabi, Eiad Yafi, Sam Ewald, Rob Comber

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With 83,000 Syrian refugees, Za'atari camp in Jordan has become the second largest home for displaced people. Engagements with refugees residing in the camp and stakeholders within the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) indicated that food is an integral part of communicating refugee identities and may play a role in meeting UNHCR project mandates, including wellbeing and capacity building. We present preliminary findings of ethnographic research exploring (1) the role of food within UNHCR project mandates, (2) motives for the creation of a Za'atari refugee cookbook and (3) the spatial, temporal and infrastructural challenges that need to be considered when designing the cookbook.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts - Proceedings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	2576-2583
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781450346566
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053235
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2017

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	Part F127655

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Fisher, K. E., Talhouk, R., Yefimova, K., Al-Shahrabi, D., Yafi, E., Ewald, S., & Comber, R. (2017). Za'atari refugee cookbook: Relevance, challenges and design considerations. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts - Proceedings (pp. 2576-2583). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. Part F127655). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053235

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts - Proceedings. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2017. p. 2576-2583 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. Part F127655).

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Fisher KE, Talhouk R, Yefimova K, Al-Shahrabi D, Yafi E, Ewald S et al. Za'atari refugee cookbook: Relevance, challenges and design considerations. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts - Proceedings. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2017. p. 2576-2583. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053235

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