Urban displacement : Syria's refugees in the Middle East / edited by Are John Knudsen and Sarah A. Tobin

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Settling in Cities -- 1 Syrian Self-Settlement in Lebanon's 'Arrival Cities' Refugee Livelihoods in Tripoli, Beirut and Tyre -- 2 At the Intersection of Economic and Family Networks: Female Syrian Refugees from Homs in Mafraq, Jordan -- 3 'Here, I'm a Syrian in Erbil' Identities and Livelihoods of the Syrian Refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq -- 4 Aspiring Cosmopolitans: Syrian Youth in Urban Turkey -- Part II Refugee Urbanism and Urban Policies -- 5 The (Re)Making of a Palestinian Ghetto: Syrian Displacement and Urban Transformation in the Beddawi Refugee Camp -- 6 'Give Them Shelter' An Investigation of the Occupancy Free of Charge Refugee Response in Lebanon -- 7 Syrian Refugees in Urban Turkey: Between Migration Policies and Realities -- 8 Refugees and the Urban Fabric: Palestinian and Syrian Settlement Patterns in Jordan -- Part III Global Policy Approaches -- 9 Refuge in Syria: Where Duty Outweighs Human Rights-Based Approaches -- 10 The Syrian Emergency and Its Impact on the Evolution of Global Refugee Policy -- 11 Strategic Caution and Tactical Innovation: UNHCR Responses to Changing Patterns of Displacement -- 12 Global Frameworks for Urban (Displacement) Response -- Index

Syria’s massive displacement (from 2012 onwards) is one of the largest, most complex and intractable humanitarian emergencies of today. More than 5.7 million Syrian refugees live mainly in cities and urban areas throughout the Middle East. Urban Displacement examines multiple dimensions of this crisis from political and socioeconomic predicaments to questions of social belonging, the complexity of the international, regional and national responses and how they affect urban spaces. The volume brings together experts in the field of forced migration studies and displacement in the Middle East and presents a range of in-depth ethnographic data, cross-sectional surveys and policy analyses.