Navigating a Limited ‘World of Possibilities’: Refugee Journeys of Jewish Children and Youth in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Burgard, Antoine

doi:10.1017/s0960777321000205

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“…Some 62% of surveyed Syrian graduates of the DST programme responded, ‘because I am Syrian’, to a survey question about the major barrier they faced in finding a job in Lebanon. Against this backdrop, online freelancing can appear as a more accessible income opportunity, in part because it is not regulated by the government and falls into a legal grey zone in Lebanon (Bayram, 2019).…”

Section: Digital Exiles: Exclusion and Marginality Among Syrian Refugeesmentioning

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Online work as humanitarian relief? The promise and limitations of digital livelihoods for Syrian refugees and Lebanese youth during times of crisis

Hackl

Najdi

2023

Environ Plan A

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The global spread of a web-based digital economy raises questions about its potential as a lifeline to people affected by severe economic and humanitarian crises. As local markets crumble and unemployment rises, online freelance work offers a seemingly accessible source of income that is independent of the constraints of local markets and national regulations. This article scrutinizes this promise against the backdrop of multiple evolving crises in Lebanon, asking to what extent a transnational digital economy can serve crisis-affected populations, including refugees, as a secure source of income and work. The research is based on interviews and surveys with Syrian refugees and host community members in Lebanon, who participated in digital skills training programmes and worked as digital freelancers for Social Impact Platforms and Enterprises. Their experience shows how the impact of Lebanon's crises undermined the feasibility of web-based digital work precisely at a time when they needed it most. Syrian refugees in Lebanon are affected by particular layers of regulatory restriction, including their exclusion from digital platforms, skills training programmes, and the financial system. As these layers of exclusion intersect with the precarity of self-employed digital jobs and a severe economic crisis, Syrians’ displacement in Lebanon is reconfigured into a digital space of exile within a transnational digital economy. Viewed from this perspective, the digital economy fails to live up to its inclusive promise and fails to transcend the restrictive regulations, economic instability, and precarity that characterizes crisis-affected states and populations.

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Section: Digital Exiles: Exclusion and Marginality Among Syrian Refugeesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online work as humanitarian relief? The promise and limitations of digital livelihoods for Syrian refugees and Lebanese youth during times of crisis

Hackl

Najdi

2023

Environ Plan A

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Women in child search: a gendered view of post-World War II reconstruction

Schmidt,

Stone

2023

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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Trajectoires de persécution enfantines et micropolitiques du réapparentement au sein du Centre Mémorial Gisimba. Kigali, 1994-2015

Dumas

2024

Annales De Démographie Historique

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Comment tenter de saisir les trajectoires enfantines de persécution avant, pendant et après le génocide des Tutsi à partir de la dévastation des liens familiaux orchestrée par les responsables de l’extermination au printemps 1994 ? L’article propose de répondre à cette question à partir d’une approche microhistorique prenant pour lieu de l’enquête un orphelinat de la capitale rwandaise, le Centre Mémorial Gisimba. Rare havre de protection dans un quartier soumis à la loi des tueurs pendant le génocide, il a accueilli jusqu’à sa fermeture en 2015 des centaines d’orphelins et d’orphelines survivants. Les archives de l’orphelinat mobilisées ici permettent de restituer, à hauteur d’enfants, les itinéraires de persécution et les réagencements familiaux nés de l’amputation radicale de la filiation.

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Navigating a Limited ‘World of Possibilities’: Refugee Journeys of Jewish Children and Youth in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Cited by 3 publications

References 30 publications

Online work as humanitarian relief? The promise and limitations of digital livelihoods for Syrian refugees and Lebanese youth during times of crisis

Online work as humanitarian relief? The promise and limitations of digital livelihoods for Syrian refugees and Lebanese youth during times of crisis

Women in child search: a gendered view of post-World War II reconstruction

Trajectoires de persécution enfantines et micropolitiques du réapparentement au sein du Centre Mémorial Gisimba. Kigali, 1994-2015

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