Books Details
Author : Dawn Chatty Pages : 224 pages Publisher : Oxford University Press,
USA Language : ISBN-10 : 0190876069 ISBN-13 : 9780190876067
Books Descriptions
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
