Caitlin received her DPhil from the University of Oxford in International Development 2019, and her book based on her doctoral research â an ethnography of the political practices of refugee youth in East Jerusalem, titled Beyond the State â is currently under review with Cambridge University Press. Her second book project, on coerced migration among youth from Gaza to Europe is based on research conducted as a Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2019 and as a Max Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow at the EUI in 2020.
Caitlin has taught qualitative research methods and ethics at the EUI, and is co-editor of the textbook Inclusive Ethnography: Making fieldwork safer, healthier and more ethical, published by SAGE (2024).
Caitlin has extensive experience as a consultant and advisor to UNRWA, UNHCR, UNICEF, Save the Children, the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies and to European diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.
Core discipline: anthropology.
Books and special issues of academic journals
Procter, C. and Spector, B. (eds.) 2024. Inclusive Ethnography: Making fieldwork safer, healthier and more ethical. London: SAGE.
Journal articles
Procter, C., Hart, J., Al-Rozzi, M., and Pontalti, K. 2023. âConceptualising and Challenging Child Neglect in Humanitarian Action:âŻâŻ Protecting Displaced Children in Jordan and Palestineâ. Child Abuse and Neglect (publication 2023 forthcoming)âŻ
Procter, C. 2022.âRefugee Status, Permanent Residency and Citizenship: the re-making of categories among Palestinian youth in East Jerusalem. Journal of Refugee Studies 36:1 (65-83)
Procter, C. 2021. âCo-ordinated mobility: disrupting narratives of convergence in the irregular migration of youth from the Gaza Strip. Public Anthropologist 3:1 (93-110).
Book chapters
Procter, C. 2023. ââIn Gaza there is no tomorrowâ: youth participation in Gazaâs Great March of Returnâ. In Bocco, R. and Said, I. De-colonising the Question of Palestine, IHEID Geneva.
Procter, C. 2022. âIn search of protection: Irregular mobility among Palestinian youth in Gazaâ. In Achilli, L(ed) Global Human Smuggling: Creativity, Control and Complexity in Unauthorized Mobility, John Hopkins University Press.
Research and policy reports
Hart, J., Procter, C., Al-Rozzi, M. 2022. âNeglect and Protection of Refugee Children: a report on research in Jordan and the Gaza Strip, Palestineâ. Bath: University of Bath.
Hart, J., Procter, C., Al-Rozzi, M et al. 2021. âCOVID-19 in the Gaza Strip : Community Perspectives on the Pandemicâ. London: ELRHA.
Al-Rozzi, M., Procter, C. and Torsein, C. 2020. âDetention of children engaged in armed struggle in East Jerusalem: safeguarding child rightsâ. 2020. East Jerusalem: UNICEF.
Procter, C. 2020. âImproving living conditions in the Palestinian gatherings in Lebanon: towards more comprehensive and sustainable solutions. 2020. Beirut: The Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies and UNDP.
Abdulkhaliq, N., Bitar, K. and Procter, C. 2020. âPalestinian refugees from Syria in Lebanon: Protection and Livelihoodsâ. 2020. Amman: UNRWA.
Procter, C. and Liew, Z. 2020. âChild focused recovery from armed conflict: towards a new approachâ. London: Save the Children UK.
Hanley, T., Procter, C. and Ogwang, K. 2018. âSexual and Gender Based Violence in protracted displacement: prevention and response among Syrian refugees in Lebanonâ. Geneva: UNHCR.
Blog posts and media
âGaza conflict: how childrenâs lives are affected on every levelâ. The Conversation. 17.10.2023
âWhat gives Israel the right to annihilate Gaza? Suggesting both sides are to blame is not a defensible positionâ. With Luigi Achilli. Open Democracy 30.10.2023.
âCoerced innovation: Gaza makes its own tools to fight against COVID-19â. Open Democracy. 16.04.2020
âWhen Palestinians tell you Israeli Apartheid is real, listen: Palestinian responses to Peace to Prosperityâ. Middle East Directions, EUI. 15.02.2020
âThe future of Jerusalem: Trumpâs Peace Plan (2)â. Middle East Directions, EUI. 10.02.2020
âThe âProblemâ of Gaza: Trumpâs Peace Plan (1)â. Middle East Directions, EUI. 05.02.2020
âA return to targeted assassinations in Gazaâ. Middle East Directions, EUI. 12.11.2019