Lives in Limbo - Syrian Youth in Turkey

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.

About the author

Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and Visiting Professor in the European Institute of the London School of Economics. Her most recent books include Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State, with M. Hatay (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) and The Anthropology of the Future, with D. M. Knight, (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Maissam Nimer is a senior researcher at Özyeğin University, working on a Horizon Plus project on return migration. She also leads project funded by TÜBİTAK (the Turkish Research Council) on highly qualified migrants in Turkey. Her research has received awards from TÜBİTAK and the Turkish Science Academy (BAGEP).

Ayşen Üstübici is Assistant Professor at Koç University Department of Sociology and the Department of Political Science, affiliated with the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc). She works on irregular migration, externalization of migration policies, politics of forced migration, and future aspirations.

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).

Product details

• Authors: Amal Abdulla, Rebecca Bryant, Rebecca Nimer Bryant, Bryant Rebecca, Maissam Nimer, Aysen Ustubici, Ay& Üstübici, Ay¿en Üstübici, Ayşen Üstübici
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781805395126
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-512-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Forced Migration
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Syria, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Turkey, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Relating to adolescence / teenage years, Age groups: adolescents, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Türkiye / Turkey