Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

301 Pages·2018·4.692 MB·English

by  Dawn Chatty

SYRIA

DAWN CHATTY
Syria
The Making and Unmaking
of a Refuge State
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1. Forced Migration and Refuge in Late Ottoman Syria 15
2. The Circassians, Chechnyans, and Other Caucasian Forced
Migrants Reimagining a Homeland 49
3. The Armenians and Other Christians Seek Refuge in Greater
Syria 85
4. The Kurds Seeking Freedom of Ethnic Identity Expression 111
5. Palestinians Return to their ‘Motherland’ 145
6. The Making of a Cosmopolitan Quarter: Sha’laan in the
Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 177
7. Iraqis and Second-Wave Assyrians as Temporary Guests 197
8. The Unmaking of a State as Syrians Flee 219
Notes 247
Bibliography 256
Index 269
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