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Authoritarianism, Displacement and Syrian Family Life: Reckoning with the State

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Authoritarianism, Displacement and Syrian Family Life

Reckoning with the State

Birgitte Stampe Holst

150 pages, 6 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-503-0 $120.00/£92.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (June 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-504-7 eBook Not Yet Published


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Syrians living in refuge in Lebanon and Turkey during the war in Syria continued to reckon with the Syrian State as a direct and indirect force in their lives. Through an ethnographic account of everyday life in Syrian families with a variety of political standpoints, this book demonstrates how the experience of displacement was shaped by ongoing deliberations on the ways in which the Syrian State had and continued to intersect people’s lives. It provides new perspectives on the co-constitution of authoritarian rule and displacement in a Middle East context.

Birgitte Stampe Holst is Associated Researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. Her research interests focus on investigating processes of political and social change from the point of view of everyday life. Having lived and worked in Syria before the uprising in 2011, she examines these questions predominantly regarding Syrians living in refuge in Syria's neighbour countries. Her work has been published in journals such as Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, Conflict and Society, and Journal of Refugee Studies.

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyRefugee and Migration Studies
Area: Middle East & Israel


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