Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

by Dawn Chatty

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190876069
• ISBN13: 9780190876067
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.7"