The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey (Volume 5) (McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Series)

A comprehensive study of the lives of Syrians and the precarious conditions they face under temporary protection in Turkey. __The Precarious Lives of Syrians__ reveals the vulnerability and insecurity that Syrian refugees confront in Turkey, including their socio-legal status, living conditions, and mobility. Drawing on legal and scholarly materials, as well as extensive field research, it provides a thoughtful and compelling appraisal of the experience of migration. "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 « 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. »-- Résumé de l'éditeur Cover THE PRECARIOUS LIVES OF SYRIANS Title Copyright CONTENTS Figures Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Living under Temporary Protection: “Anything Can Happen at Any Moment” CHAPTER ONE Responses to Forced Migration: Humanitarian Emergency, Temporary Protection, and Counter-Responses to Precarity CHAPTER TWO Precarious Mobilities: Externalization Policies and the EU–Turkey Statement CHAPTER THREE Precarious Legal Frameworks in Turkey CHAPTER FOUR Precarity through Irregular Access to Social Services: Implications for Living and Working Conditions CHAPTER FIVE Resisting Precarity: Claiming Rights to Belong and to Stay CHAPTER SIX Precarious Resistances and Claiming the Right to Leave Conclusion Notes References Index