Precarious Lives of Syrians

Precarious Lives of Syrians

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Baban Feyzi
McGill-Queen's University Press
EAN: 9780228008033
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Turkey now hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, more than 3.6 million of the 12.7 million displaced by the Syrian Civil War. Many of them are subject to an unpredictable temporary protection, forcing them to live under vulnerable and insecure conditions.

The Precarious Lives of Syrians examines the three dimensions of the architecture of precarity: Syrian migrants' legal status, the spaces in which they live and work, and their movements within and outside Turkey. The difficulties they face include restricted access to education and healthcare, struggles to secure employment, language barriers, identity-based discrimination, and unlawful deportations. Feyzi Baban, Suzan Ilcan, and Kim Rygiel show that Syrians confront their precarious conditions by engaging in cultural production and community-building activities, and by undertaking perilous journeys to Europe, allowing them to claim spaces and citizenship while asserting their rights to belong, to stay, and to escape. The authors draw on migration policies, legal and scholarly materials, and five years of extensive field research with local, national, and international humanitarian organizations, and with Syrians from all walks of life.

The Precarious Lives of Syrians offers a thoughtful and compelling analysis of migration precarity in our contemporary context.

EAN 9780228008033
ISBN 0228008034
Binding Hardback
Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date September 15, 2021
Pages 296
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152
Country Canada
Authors Baban Feyzi; Ilcan Suzan; Rygiel Kim
Illustrations 6 photos
Series McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies