Reflections on Displacement: Hopes, Challenges, and Futures of Syrian Refugees

🚨 Event Update! 🚨

To ensure that more participants worldwide can join at a convenient time and to accommodate our presenters’ schedules during Ramadan, we have decided to postpone our event, originally scheduled for tomorrow, to May.

We will be sharing the new date and more details very soon—stay tuned! Thank you for your support!

As we approach the official end of the Southern Responses to Displacement project, join us on 11 March as we reflect on the changing positions, hopes and dreams of refugees from Syria in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.

Members of the SOURCED research team in Turkey, Amal Shaiah Istanbouli and Sara Al-Helali Saab, will be in conversation with SOURCED Principal Investigator Prof Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, SOURCED Research Fellow: Dr Aminath Nisha Zadhy-Cepoglu and Dr Sana Murrani (Plymouth University) on topics including: meanings, practices and experiences of formal and informal responses to displacement since 2011; overlapping and evolving challenges in the context of protracted displacement, COVID-19, the 2023 Turkish-Syrian earthquake and the fall of Assad’s regime in December 2024; and reflections on the future of research with and by people displaced from Syria.

This online roundtable will be held on Zoom, in English, and will be recorded. A transcript of the event will be available on our website shortly after the event in English, Arabic and Turkish.

You may be interested in the following resources by some of our roundtable participants:

Research terminology from the ‘Global North’ to the ‘Global South’ – conceptualisations, interpretations, and challenges from Hatay, Turkey, by Amal Shaiah Istanbouli
The importance of place and language – Syrian, Turkish, and Syrian-Turkish encounters in Gaziantep, by Sara Alhelali Saab
Thinking through ‘the global South’ and ‘Southern responses to displacement’: An introduction, by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

This is the third in a series of decentered roundtables and events marking the end of the SOURCED project. Previous events include Launch of the Special Issue of the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs and a closed workshop: South-South Collaborations in Diplomatic and Humanitarian Responses to Conflict and Displacement.

You can also join us online between 23-25 April for a three-day International Conference on Displacement, hosted by the University of Hyderabad in collaboration with Dartmouth College and UCL.

Further events and announcements will be also shared on our LinkedIn page.