In this talk, we are joined by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, who will be speaking about her recent book Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (2024). She traces how the refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes—even if born out of emergency—reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics. She identifies forces of colonial and humanitarian settlement, tracing spatial and racial politics in the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-Somalia border—at once a dense setting that manifests decades of architectural, planning, and design initiatives and a much older constructed environment that reflects its own ways of knowing.