Area
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas
Department
Social and Human Sciences
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patriciagarciaamado@deusto.esResearcher, practitioner and professor in the areas of forced migration, humanitarian action and armed conflict. A political scientist with a PhD in Human Rights, she has focused her research on the economic and social rights of internally displaced persons and refugees in cities, particularly on the right to adequate housing and the right to a livelihood, as well as the social inclusion and agency of people in situations of forced displacement, especially in the African continent. As an academic, she has worked in research centres at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Cardiff University and McGill University, as well as international humanitarian organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières. Her involvement as a lecturer at the University of Deusto began with her participation in the NOHA Master's Degree in Humanitarian Action, and she is now part of the International Relations teaching team.
CVArticles in Scientific Journals
Inhabiting temporariness: the agency-in-waiting of Eritrean refugees in the city / Environment and Urbanization
García Amado, Patricia; Brown, Alison; Mackie, Peter
ISBNAR: 0956-2478 / Volume: 2 / Journal number: 36 / Start page: 340 / End page: 357 / Date: 2024
Urban protracted displacement and displacement economies / Environment and Urbanization
Brown, Alison; Mackie, Peter; García Amado, Patricia; Barrat, Stefanie; Krišciunaite, Akvil?
ISBNAR: 0956-2478 / Volume: 2 / Journal number: 36 / Start page: 278 / End page: 299 / Date: 2024
The Displacement Economies Framework / Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
Brown, Alison; García Amado, Patricia; Mackie, Peter
ISBNAR: 1556-2948 / Start page: 1 / End page: 18 / Date: 2024
Connecting Tenure Security with Durable Solutions to Internal Displacement: From Restitution of Property Rights to the Right to Adequate Housing / International Migration
García Amado, Patricia
ISBNAR: 0020-7985 / Volume: 54 / Journal number: 4 / Start page: 74 / End page: 86 / Date: 2016
Articles Published Online
Research with refugees: taking care not to cut a long story short
García Amado, Patricia; Dajani, Deena
URL: https://www.iied.org/research-refugees-taking-care-not-cut-long-story-short / Date: 2022
Chapters of Books
The agency of IDPs / Oxford Handbook on Internal Displacement
García Amado, Patricia; Nicolau, Ileana; Welsh, Jennifer
Date: 2025
Framing Displacement Economies / Jacobsen, Karen, and Nassim Majidi (ed.) Handbook on forced migration. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023
Brown, Alison; Mackie, Peter; García Amado, Patricia
ISBNCO: 978 1 83910 496 1 / Start page: 298 / End page: 306 / Date: 2023
Internally Displaced Persons: A Vulnerable Group in Need of Protection / The Rights of Minorities: Cultural Groups, Migrants, Displaced Persons and Sexual Identity 2, 2017, Vol.2. United Arab Emirates: Bentham Science Publishers, 2017
Churruca Muguruza, Cristina; García Amado, Patricia
ISBNCO: 978-1-68108-594-4 / Start page: 145 / End page: 162 / Date: 2017
The localisation of IDP norms in Ethiopia: more than a draft IDP Proclamation
García Amado, Patricia
Congress name: The localisation of IDP norms in Ethiopia: more than a draft IDP Proclamation / City: Toronto / Country: Canada / Web: https://site.pheedloop.com/event/carfms25/home/ / Publication name: The localisation of IDP norms in Ethiopia: more than a draft IDP Proclamation / Start date: 2025/05/26 / End date: 2025/05/29
The localization of internally displaced persons protection norms in Ethiopia and Fiji
García Amado, Patricia; Nicolau, Ileana
Congress name: The localization of internally displaced persons protection norms in Ethiopia and Fiji / City: Chicago / Country: Estados Unidos De America / Web: https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA2025 / Publication name: The localization of internally displaced persons protection norms in Ethiopia and Fiji / Start date: 2025/03/02 / End date: 2025/03/05
'Internally Displaced Persons' participation on and under the international radar: Experiences in Fiji and Ethiopia'
García Amado, Patricia; Nicolau, Ileana
Congress name: 'Internally Displaced Persons' participation on and under the international radar: Experiences in Fiji and Ethiopia' / ISBN: 0 / City: Montreal / Country: Canada / Web: https://www.mcgill.ca/isid/files/isid/final_list_of_participants_-_idp_participation_workshop_1.pdf / Publication name: 'Internally Displaced Persons' participation on and under the international radar: Experiences in Fiji and Ethiopia' / Start date: 2024/12/04 / End date: 2024/12/06
Inhabiting Temporariness: Eritrean refugees' agency-in-waiting in Addis Ababa
García Amado, Patricia
Congress name: Inhabiting Temporariness: Eritrean refugees' agency-in-waiting in Addis Ababa / City: Londres / Country: Reino Unido / Web: https://www.iied.org/forced-displacement-city / Publication name: Inhabiting Temporariness: Eritrean refugees' agency-in-waiting in Addis Ababa / Start date: 2023/09/16 / End date: 2023/09/17
Bordering Economies. Refugees informal cross-border trade from the margins
García Amado, Patricia
Congress name: Bordering Economies. Refugees informal cross-border trade from the margins / City: Reading / Country: Reino Unido / Web: https://www.devstud.org.uk/past-conferences/2023-crisis-in-the-anthropocene/ / Publication name: Bordering Economies. Refugees informal cross-border trade from the margins / Start date: 2023/06/28 / End date: 2023/06/30
Framing Displacement Economies
García Amado, Patricia; Brown, Alison; Mackie, Peter
Congress name: Framing Displacement Economies / City: Paris / Country: Francia / Web: https://conference.ihsa.info/proposed-panels/archive/1693/ / Publication name: Framing Displacement Economies / Start date: 2021/09/05 / End date: 2021/09/06
The missing link: the relational dimension of durable solutions to protracted urban internal displacement
García Amado, Patricia
Congress name: The missing link: the relational dimension of durable solutions to protracted urban internal displacement / ISBN: 978-1-912250-22-6 / City: Londres / Country: Reino Unido / Web: https://rli.sas.ac.uk/events/rli-annual-conference/third-annual-conference / Publication name: The missing link: the relational dimension of durable solutions to protracted urban internal displacement / Date: 2018/07/20
Training experiences and responses of local stakeholders in conflict-affected countries and territories
García Amado, Patricia; Barbeito, Cecile; Herbolzheimer, Kristian
Congress name: Training experiences and responses of local stakeholders in conflict-affected countries and territories / Country: España / Publication name: Training experiences and responses of local stakeholders in conflict-affected countries and territories / Date: 2017/09/18
Tenure systems in post-conflict Sub-Saharan African cities: hybrid infrastructures for peace or weapons of war
García Amado, Patricia
Congress name: Tenure systems in post-conflict Sub-Saharan African cities: hybrid infrastructures for peace or weapons of war / City: Manchester / Country: Reino Unido / Publication name: Tenure systems in post-conflict Sub-Saharan African cities: hybrid infrastructures for peace or weapons of war / Start date: 2014/09/11 / End date: 2014/09/12
Protecting the internally displaced: Sovereignty, agency and the localization of international norms
García Amado, Patricia; Welsh, Jennifer; Bradley, Megan
Start date: 2024/02/01 / End date: 2025/06/11
Bordering Economies. Refugee Livelihoods and Informal Cross-border Trade
García Amado, Patricia
Start date: 2021/02/01 / End date: 2021/09/30
Out of Sight Out of Mind: Realigning Responses to Protracted Displacement in an Urban World
García Amado, Patricia; Earl, Lucy
Start date: 2020/04/15 / End date: 2023/11/30
Cum Laude con mención internacional
García Amado, Patricia
Merit type: Mérito Académico / Date: 2018/12/18
Beca de Formación de Personal Investigador
García Amado, Patricia
Merit type: Mérito Académico / Start date: 2013/09/15 / End date: 2016/09/15
Erasmus+ PhD Mobility Grant
García Amado, Patricia
Start date: 2015/02/01 / End date: 2015/05/31