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Dawn Chatty: Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place

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Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford, UK: Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place - understanding perceptions and aspirations among hosts, practitioners, and guests in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan

The speed with which Syria’s peaceful demonstrations for greater freedoms disintegrated into extreme violence and armed conflict shocked the world and left the humanitarian aid regime in turmoil as agencies struggled to respond to the growing displacement crisis on Syria’s borders. It also left the neighbouring states of Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan in a quandary as to how to effectively provide for these people seeking refuge. None have granted the displaced ‘refugee’ status; each has established temporary measures to deal with this crisis. In many cases the displaced and the host communities have not been consulted and thus tensions have quickly emerged among host communities, displaced Syrians and humanitarian policy-makers and practitioners. In this presentation Dawn Chatty first places the current crisis in global terms and then he will focus on the disparities in perceptions and aspirations and the unsustainable conditions and demands regionally driving many refugees to seek survival in dignity elsewhere.

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