‘The war has divided us more than ever’: Syrian refugee family networks and social capital for mobility through protracted displacement in Jordan

Tobin, Sarah A.; Momani, Fawwaz Ayoub; Tamara, Al Yakoub,

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2022.2090157

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“…We build on this definition to explore concurrent situations of protracted displacement in Mexico. To our knowledge, most recent work focuses on protracted displacement in Africa (Bakewell 2008; Adugna, Rudolf, and Getachew 2022; Jacobs et al 2022), Asia (Mielke and Etzold 2022; Tobin, Momani, and Al Yakoub 2022), and Europe (Christ and Etzold 2022; Cingolani et al 2022; Ferreira et al 2022; Papatzani et al 2022). However, there has not been an analysis of the characteristics, causes, and consequences of current protracted displacement situations in Mexico.…”

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confidence: 99%

Concurrent Displacements: Return, Waiting for Asylum, and Internal Displacement in Northern Mexico

Gil-Everaert¹,

Masferrer

Chávez

2023

Journal on Migration and Human Security

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This paper explores the ways in which contemporary mobility dynamics in Mexico have changed over the last decade, leading to protracted displacement. It focuses on three populations: (1) the internally displaced due to violence; (2) Mexican nationals returning from the United States, both voluntarily and due to deportation; and (3) populations seeking asylum in Mexico and the United States. These three populations are not usually analyzed together and do not squarely fall under the traditional legal definitions. The paper outlines ways that situations of protracted displacement and insecurity present challenges in four interconnected arenas of life: housing, legal status, employment, and emotional well-being. For governments and local communities, protracted displacement requires immediate humanitarian responses and the development and implementation of public policies focused on integration. The paper concludes with a set of policy recommendations based on its findings.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concurrent Displacements: Return, Waiting for Asylum, and Internal Displacement in Northern Mexico

Gil-Everaert¹,

Masferrer

Chávez

2023

Journal on Migration and Human Security

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“…Finally, we attended to sisters-in-waitingthat is, the friendships women formed with nonfamilial others in displacement. Attention to the social in homemaking is not new (Ahmed, 1999;Fábos, 2015;Lokot, 2020;Stevens, 2016;Tobin et al, 2022). Brun and Fábos's (2015) too include it in their framework, defining the element of home as involving, among other things, social connections made in displacement.…”

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Sisters-in-Waiting: A Case Study of Displaced Syrian Women Fostering New Senses and Memories of Home in Lebanon

Ouaali,

Miedema

2023

Refuge

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Building on variously located Syrian women’s accounts of their day-to-day lives in Lebanon, this article illuminates meaning-making processes in protracted displacement, defined by the UNHCR (2004, p. 1) as a “long-lasting and intractable state of limbo.” We draw on the metaphor of a “constellation of homes” (Brun & Fábos, 2015) to explore various homemaking practices and the interconnected temporal and multi-sensorial dimensions thereof. In so doing, we counter narratives of displaced women as a homogenous collective and problematic assumptions of stasis and passivity associated with protracted displacement. Particular attention is paid to women’s narratives regarding “purposeful work” and, crucially, female friendship, which we argue can be understood as additional nodes in the constellation of homes. We argue that further and different forms of research are required to do justice to the multi-sensorial dimensions of homemaking and the novel concept of “sisters-in-waiting” in the lives of women in protracted displacement.

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“…As Fajth and colleagues' found concerning Congolese refugees in Rwanda, "greater (economic) interaction between the two populations helps increase trust between refugees and host communities over time" (2019, [56] p. 1). Similarly, Tobin and colleagues have found that, in Jordan, "The refugees' relations with the host populations are amicable but distant; often, the relations grow stronger through trust-based economic ties and conflict resolution"(2021, [57] p. 23).…”

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Exploring Syrian Refugees’ Access to Medical and Social Support Services Using a Trauma-Informed Analytic Framework

Moayerian

Stephenson

Karaki

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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Even after arrival in new countries, refugees may be exposed to traumatic events. This state is exacerbated by contextual stressors, including the resettlement process, asylum proceedings and threats of deportation. This paper is rooted in a trauma-informed framework. We interviewed 16 male Syrian refugee migrant workers employed on a Jordanian farm during crop harvesting season to explore the quality and level of medical care and mental health services they received in light of the framework’s principal dimensions (e.g., safety, trust, intersectionality). We found that this vulnerable group of individuals is living a marginal and marginalized existence and depends on the goodwill of the growers for whom they work to treat them with a modicum of dignity and respect. Second, their itinerancy makes it difficult for this population to take advantage of available medical and mental health services at the nation’s major refugee camps. Finally, our interlocutors preferred their current lives, as isolating and limiting as they are, as superior to full-time residence in the camps, because they perceive their present way of life as according a measure of dignity, self-direction and autonomy they could not enjoy in the camps.

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‘The war has divided us more than ever’: Syrian refugee family networks and social capital for mobility through protracted displacement in Jordan

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

Concurrent Displacements: Return, Waiting for Asylum, and Internal Displacement in Northern Mexico

Concurrent Displacements: Return, Waiting for Asylum, and Internal Displacement in Northern Mexico

Sisters-in-Waiting: A Case Study of Displaced Syrian Women Fostering New Senses and Memories of Home in Lebanon

Exploring Syrian Refugees’ Access to Medical and Social Support Services Using a Trauma-Informed Analytic Framework

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