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

Feyzi Baban

ISBN 10: 0228008042 / ISBN 13: 9780228008040

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0228008042
• ISBN 13: 9780228008040
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 526 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Feyzi Baban is associate professor of international development studies and political studies at Trent University.

Suzan Ilcan is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

Kim Rygiel is associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University.