Book Review – 'The Justice and Development Party in Turkey' by Toygar Sinan Baykan
by Gorkem Altinors This original history of Turkey's ruling AKP skilfully moves away from structural factors and offers an agency-focussed analysis of the authoritarian turn in ...more
Why Ethnography is Important for Refugee-related Research
by Sarah A Tobin Aziza Ibish, a Syrian asylum-seeker living in Greece, shops in the municipal market of Karditsa. ©UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis In 2002, Michel Agier described ...more
Resilience and Relationality: the Agency of Pious Syrian Refugee Women
by Umut Ozkaleli Syrian refugees wait at the offices of ASAM, (Association for Solidarity with Asylum seekers and Migrants) a local charity in Izmir, Turkey. © ...more
Between Vulnerability and Resilience – ‘Refugeeness’ as Political Subjectivity
by Jouni Häkli and Kirsi Pauliina Kallio Syrian refugee children look outside their family's apartment window in the lower income Masaken Osman neighborhood on the outskirts ...more
Three Years of the Jordan Compact: The (Gendered) Challenges of Providing Work Permits for Syrian Refugees
by Lewis Turner Za’atari refugee camp, Jordan. January 2018 © UNHCR/Ivor Prickett The Jordan Compact was meant to be a “new paradigm” for a refugee response. ...more
Contested Meanings of Resilience Building: How Great Expectations in Brussels are Dashed in Beirut
by Tamirace Fakhoury A UNHCR staff member enters a makeshift home during the emergency response to Storm Norma at Bar Elias settlement, Lebanon. © UNHCR/Diego Ibarra Sánchez. Today, ...more
Questioning Dominant Refugee Narratives and Research Methodologies
by Yasmine Kherfi Participants at the LSE Middle East Centre conference, 7 March 2019. This is the introduction to a series of memos presented as part of a conference organised by ...more
Counting Mass Atrocity: A Demographic Documentation of ISIS’s Attack on the Yazidi Village of Kocho
by Valeria Cetorelli & Sareta Ashraph An aerial view of Kocho after ISIS were forced from the village. Source: Sareta Ashraph On 3 August 2014, the ...more
Book Review – 'Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East' by Patrick Milton, Michael Axworthy and Brendan Simms
by Guy Burton An ambitious new book seeks to compare the conditions that led to Europe's treaties of Westphalia, which ushered in relative peace and heralded ...more
Minorities, Displacement, and Citizenship in Northern Iraq
by Dylan O'Driscoll and Irene Costantini IDPs in Jadah camp, near Qayyarah in Nineveh Province. Source: IOM Internal displacement has received growing attention as a significant ...more
