Full Description
This volume explores the extent to which forced migration has become a defining feature of life in the Middle East and North Africa. The papers present research on refugees, internally displaced peoples, as well as 'those who remain', from Afghanistan in the East to Morocco in the West.
Dealing with the dispossession and displacement of waves of peoples forced into the region at the end of World War I, and the Palestinian dispossession after World War II, the volume also examines the plight of the nearly 4 million Iraqis who have fled their country or been internally displaced since 1990.
Papers are grouped around four related themes - displacement, repatriation, identity in exile, and refugee policy - providing a significant contribution to this developing, highly pertinent area of contemporary research.
Contents
Introduction
What Visibility Conceals: Re-embedding Refugee Migration from Iraq
I Displacement
Displacement by Repatriation - The Future of Turkish Immigrants in Northern Cyprus
Internal Displacement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem: The Intersection of Politics and the Loss of Livelihoods
Beyond the Boundaries: Hazara Migratory Networks between Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and the Western countries
II Repatriation
From Mohajer to Hamwatan: The Reintegration Experiences of Second Generation Afghans Returning from Neighbouring Countries
Repatriation and Reconstruction: Afghan Youth as a 'Burnt Generation' in Post-conflict Return
III Identity in Exile
The Sahrawi Self and Other: The Camps, Europe and the Middle East in the eyes of the Polisario Front
Identity, Modernity and Poetry as a Rhetorical Device among Afghan Refugees in Iran
Call to Respond, Respond to Call: An Iraqi Women's Oral History Project
IV Policy
There goes the Neighborhood: Regional Policy Variants vis-à-vis Iraqi Refugees
The Intractability of the Cyprus and Palestinian Conflicts: Refugees and National Humiliation
Epilogue
Dispossession and Forced Migration in 21st century Middle East and North Africa: The Way Forward
