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The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey

The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey

Baban, Feyzi
Ilcan, Suzan
Rygiel, Kim

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Series: McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Book 5

General Political ScienceImmigration & RefugeesSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 0228008034
ISBN13: 9780228008033
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Sep 15 2021
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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