| Series |
McGill-Queen's refugee and forced migration studies ; 5
McGill-Queen's refugee and forced migration studies ; 5. ^A1457950
|
| Contents |
Living under Temporary Protection--"Anything can happen at any moment" -- Responses to Forced Migration: Humanitarian Emergency, Temporary Protection, and Counter-Responses to Precarity -- Precarious Mobilities--Externalization Policies and the EU-Turkey Statement -- Precarious Legal Frameworks in Turkey -- Precarity through Irregular Access to Social Services--Implications for Living and Working Conditions -- Resisting Precarity: Claiming Rights to Belong and to Stay -- Precarious Resistances and Claiming the Right to Leave. |
| Abstract |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-264) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021386543 |
| ISBN | 9780228008033 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0228008034 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780228008040 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0228008042 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
