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Based on long-term anthropological engagement in the region and with the people she writes about, this book is a very important contribution to regional ethnography and history and to the development of refugee studies. Dawn Chatty’s timely book is devoted to that history when Bilad ash-Sham in the late Ottoman period, and Syria since World War I, received and welcomed refugees and uprooted people from within, as well as from without, the region. In this crisis we risk disregarding the rich humanitarian history of the country. ‘Today half of the Syrian population is internally displaced or have fled, or left, for mainly neighbouring countries but also further afield. For over 25 years, he was Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame in the United States and was a visiting fellow at Princeton University, LSE, Oxford and the Department of Humanitarian Affairs at the US State Department in Washington, D.C. Tracing the arc of migration in and out of Syria in the last 150 years, Dawn Chatty offers a layered portrait of a modern nation whose cultural hybridity was until recently the source of its openness.’ - Nasser Rabat, Aga Khan Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gil Loescher is a long-established expert on international refugee policy. The last chapter recounts the tragedy of how Syrians have now become refugees from their own country.’ - Raymond Hinnebusch, Professor, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews Beginning with Sultan Abdul Hamid’s creation of the muhajireen quarter of Damascus as a refuge for Muslims from Crete, Chatty further exposes the often-forgotten forced migrations of Muslims from the Balkans, Crimea, and the Caucasus the story continues with the Armenians, Kurds, then the Palestinians and Iraqis.
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‘Passionate and erudite, combining the intimacy of the anthropological eye with a broad historical sweep, Dawn Chatty tells the two-century story of Syria as a place of refuge. ‘An admirably clear exposition of how and why Syria embraced millions of Muslim and Christian refugees from the disintegrating Ottoman Empire and how and why, in the current war, displaced Syrians were met with reciprocal hospitality in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, but large-scale rejection in the West.’ - Diana Darke, author of My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syria Crisis Chatty’s work provides a valuable insight into Syria’s formation as a refugee state before it became the world’s biggest exporter of refugees.’- International Affairs A portrait emerges of a country that has been tolerant and generous to those seeking refuge.’- The Financial Times ‘ book examines the country’s experience with migration through a mixture of source material and interviews with members of minority communities.
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If there is any hope to be found in the Syrian civil war, it is in this history. She examines the current outflow of people from Syria to neighbouring 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. 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. Syria itself has harboured millions from its neighbouring lands, and Syrian society has been shaped by these diasporas.ĭawn 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. 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. Moreover, it is equally important to appreciate how the political interests, activities, and challenges of persons on the move must impact and alter our understandings of the.The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria’s population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Yet, as many of the authors in this volume argue, it is crucial to appreciate how forced migrants are caught up within broad-scale political and power relations. Conversely, the bulk of research in FMS lacks sufficient attention to macro dimensions of international politics in which the movements, claims, and aims of forced migrants are ultimately contextualized. At best there is a marginal or selective interest with little disciplinary impact. It is a laudable premise, as conventional work throughout IR is largely and almost wilfully ignorant of the significance of forced migration, either with reference to refugees or internally displaced persons. Refugees in International Relations seeks to ‘bridge the divide’ that its editors argue lies between International Relations (IR) and Forced Migration Studies (FMS).