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Syria : the making and unmaking of a refuge state / Dawn Chatty.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 2021Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 289 pages : maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780190876067
  • 9780197577776
Other title:
  • Making and unmaking of a refuge state [Portion of title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 325.5691 23 C4951s
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Forced migration and refuge in late Ottoman Syria -- 2. The Circassians, Chechnyans, and other Caucasian forced migrants reimagining a homeland -- 3. The Armenians and other Christians seek refuge in greater Syria -- 4. The Kurds seeking freedom of ethnic identity expression -- 5. Palestinians return to their 'motherland' -- 6. The making of a cosmopolitan quarter: Sha'laan in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- 7. Iraqis and second-wave Assyrians as temporary guests -- 8. The unmaking of a state as Syrians flee.
Summary: "The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread migrations that have indelibly marked the region throughout the last 150 years. Syria itself has harbored millions from its neighboring lands, and Syrian society has been shaped by these diasporas. Dawn Chatty explores how modern Syria came to be a refuge state, focusing first on the major forced migrations into Syria of Circassians, Armenians, Kurds, Palestinians, and Iraqis. Drawing heavily on individual narratives and stories of integration, adaptation, and compromise, she shows that a local cosmopolitanism came to be seen as intrinsic to Syrian society. She examines the current outflow of people from Syria to neighboring states as individuals and families seek survival with dignity, arguing that though the future remains uncertain, the resilience and strength of Syrian society both displaced internally within Syria and externally across borders bodes well for successful return and reintegration. If there is any hope to be found in the Syrian civil war, it is in this history"--Publisher's description.
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Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Law 325.5691 C4951s (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2021 01 Not For Loan 028758
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-268) and index.

Introduction -- 1. Forced migration and refuge in late Ottoman Syria -- 2. The Circassians, Chechnyans, and other Caucasian forced migrants reimagining a homeland -- 3. The Armenians and other Christians seek refuge in greater Syria -- 4. The Kurds seeking freedom of ethnic identity expression -- 5. Palestinians return to their 'motherland' -- 6. The making of a cosmopolitan quarter: Sha'laan in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- 7. Iraqis and second-wave Assyrians as temporary guests -- 8. The unmaking of a state as Syrians flee.

"The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread migrations that have indelibly marked the region throughout the last 150 years. Syria itself has harbored millions from its neighboring lands, and Syrian society has been shaped by these diasporas. Dawn Chatty explores how modern Syria came to be a refuge state, focusing first on the major forced migrations into Syria of Circassians, Armenians, Kurds, Palestinians, and Iraqis. Drawing heavily on individual narratives and stories of integration, adaptation, and compromise, she shows that a local cosmopolitanism came to be seen as intrinsic to Syrian society. She examines the current outflow of people from Syria to neighboring states as individuals and families seek survival with dignity, arguing that though the future remains uncertain, the resilience and strength of Syrian society both displaced internally within Syria and externally across borders bodes well for successful return and reintegration. If there is any hope to be found in the Syrian civil war, it is in this history"--Publisher's description.

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