Lives in Limbo - (Forced Migration) by Rebecca Bryant & Maissam Nimer & Ayş & en Üstübici & Amal Abdulla (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

More than a decade since the start of the war in Syria, Turkey is home to almost four million of that country's displaced citizens. Youth is one of the most vulnerable groups within the refugee population, as they struggle with language and education barriers and demands on them to assimilate while retaining their own culture. Lives in Limbo gives voice to the dreams of Syrian youth who have little hope of returning to their devastated homeland and explains why this generation's future will shape how the region will develop. It explores how refugee youth create futures from the liminality of exile.

Review Quotes

"The book does a very good job of looking at the experiences of Syrian youth living in Turkey. The authors explain complicated ideas and link them to the experiences of the people they are studying." - Gülay Uğur Göksel, Istanbul Bılgı Unıversıty

"This is an impressive book... written in a compelling and very accessible style that belies the scholarly richness of the analysis and breadth of research material and concepts on which it draws. Its originality and strengths lie in the following: the effective conjuncture of youth and refugeehood; the depth and quality of the socio-ethnographic substance; richness of the analysis and argument." - Roger Zetter, University of Oxford

About the Author

Amal Abdulla is currently a research group team leader at a gender policy institution in Bahrain promoting evidence-based gender equality policies. She has a postgraduate degree in human rights and migration from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po).