Syrian-Armenian Women Migrants in Armenia - Gender, Identity, and Painful Belonging

After the outbreak of the 2011 Syrian War, a number Syrian-Armenians who had lived in the territory for generations, fled to the Republic of Armenia. This book traces the experiences of Syrian-Armenian women as they navigated their changing and gendered identities from their adopted ''homeland'' to their socially constructed new ''ancestral'' home in Armenia. The rich ethnographic research conducted over 6 years by the author reveals how women adjusted to new lives in Armenia, supported themselves through gendered work such as embroidery production, yet mostly challenge simple identities such as ''refugee'' or ''repatriate,'' existing in a state of what the author terms "painful belonging". The book further reveals crucial insight into how experiences and traumatic memories of war in Syria and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict reciprocally shape each other in the minds of the women interviewed.>

Product details

• Authors: Anahid Matossian
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2025
• EAN: 9780755648467
• ISBN: 978-0-7556-4846-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Armenia, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Middle Eastern history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum