Urban Displacement: Syria's Refugees in the Middle East

Open Access Published by Berghahn Books 2024

Urban Displacement

Syria's Refugees in the Middle East

Edited by: Are John Knudsen and Sarah A. Tobin
Funded by: Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative

Volume 48 in the series Forced Migration

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805393030

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About this book

Syria’s massive displacement (from 2012 onwards) is one of the largest, most complex and intractable humanitarian emergencies of today. More than 5.7 million Syrian refugees live mainly in cities and urban areas throughout the Middle East. Urban Displacement examines multiple dimensions of this crisis from political and socioeconomic predicaments to questions of social belonging, the complexity of the international, regional and national responses and how they affect urban spaces. The volume brings together experts in the field of forced migration studies and displacement in the Middle East and presents a range of in-depth ethnographic data, cross-sectional surveys and policy analyses.

Author / Editor information

Are John Knudsen is Research Professor at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and an International Fellow at Institute Convergences Migrations (ICM), Paris.

Sarah A. Tobin is Research Professor at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and author of Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan (Cornell UP, 2016).

Are John Knudsen is Research Professor at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and an International Fellow at Institute Convergences Migrations (ICM), Paris.

Reviews

“This book is a timely contribution to the literature on Syrian refugees and on contemporary refugee regime(s).” • Leonardo Schiocchet, Austrian Academy of Sciences

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgements Are John Knudsen and Sarah A. Tobin Open Access Download PDF	IX
Introduction Are John Knudsen and Sarah A. Tobin Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I Settling in Cities
1 Syrian Self-Settlement in Lebanon’s ‘Arrival Cities’ Refugee Livelihoods in Tripoli, Beirut and Tyre Robert Forster and Are John Knudsen Open Access Download PDF	29
2 At the Intersection of Economic and Family Networks: Female Syrian Refugees from Homs in Mafraq, Jordan Sarah A. Tobin Open Access Download PDF	55
3 ‘Here, I’m a Syrian in Erbil’ Identities and Livelihoods of the Syrian Refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Khogir M. Wirya, Fuad Smail and Tine Gade Open Access Download PDF	77
4 Aspiring Cosmopolitans: Syrian Youth in Urban Turkey Rebecca Bryant and Dunya Habash Open Access Download PDF	99
Part II Refugee Urbanism and Urban Policies
5 The (Re)Making of a Palestinian Ghetto: Syrian Displacement and Urban Transformation in the Beddawi Refugee Camp Ismae’l Sheikh Hassan Open Access Download PDF	121
6 ‘Give Them Shelter’ An Investigation of the Occupancy Free of Charge Refugee Response in Lebanon Watfa Najdi, Mona Fawaz and Nasser Yassin Open Access Download PDF	143
7 Syrian Refugees in Urban Turkey: Between Migration Policies and Realities Ahmet Içduygu and Souad Osseiran Open Access Download PDF	167
8 Refugees and the Urban Fabric: Palestinian and Syrian Settlement Patterns in Jordan Kamel Doraï Open Access Download PDF	189
Part III Global Policy Approaches
9 Refuge in Syria: Where Duty Outweighs Human Rights-Based Approaches Dawn Chatty Open Access Download PDF	213
10 The Syrian Emergency and Its Impact on the Evolution of Global Refugee Policy Jeff Crisp Open Access Download PDF	233
11 Strategic Caution and Tactical Innovation: UNHCR Responses to Changing Patterns of Displacement Astri Suhrke Open Access Download PDF	252
12 Global Frameworks for Urban (Displacement) Response Ida Z. Lien and Synne Bergby Open Access Download PDF	271
Index Open Access Download PDF	291

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 330

eBook

Published: March 1, 2024
ISBN: 9781805393030