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The Syrian Refugee Crisis: How Democracies and Autocracies Perpetrated Mass Displacement
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Barnes and Noble
The Syrian Refugee Crisis: How Democracies and Autocracies Perpetrated Mass Displacement
Current price: $160.00
Barnes and Noble
The Syrian Refugee Crisis: How Democracies and Autocracies Perpetrated Mass Displacement
Current price: $160.00
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis argues that Syrian forced migration has been deeply misunderstood. Against conventional wisdom, it suggests that refugees engaged smugglers not just as traffickers or criminal exploiters but as natural allies and means to affirm asylum rights; that the politicization of refugees according to major actors’ foreign policy priorities obfuscated the role of US and European foreign policy in generating massive displacement; and that restrictionist border policies on the Balkan Route were inhumane, incoherent, and counter-productive. Relying on extensive, rare fieldwork data from five countries comprising the Balkan Route (Jordan, Turkey, Greece, Serbia, and Germany), this book sheds light on the understudied, counter-intuitive, and often-misunderstood dynamics of forced migration, refugee agency, border restrictionism, anti-smuggling policy, and migrant decision-making in the 21st century.