Lives in Limbo

Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and Visiting Professor in the European Institute of the London School of Economics. Her most recent books include Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State, with M. Hatay (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) and The Anthropology of the Future, with D. M. Knight, (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

• PrefaceIntroduction: Syrian Pasts, Turkish FuturesChapter 1. Expectation: The Struggle for Normal LivesChapter 2. Anticipation: Uprooting and UnsettlingChapter 3. Rupture: Discontinuity and DisorientationChapter 4. Waiting: On Permanent TemporarinessChapter 5. Uncertainty: Navigating the Higher Education DreamChapter 6. Homing: Potentiality, Hope, and (Be)coming HomeChapter 7. Aspiration: Migration and MobilityConclusion: Growing Up and Moving OnAfterwordReferencesIndex

“This is an impressive book… written in a compelling and very accessible style that belies the scholarly richness of the analysis and breadth of research material and concepts on which it draws. Its originality and strengths lie in the following: the effective conjuncture of youth and refugeehood; the depth and quality of the socio-ethnographic substance; richness of the analysis and argument.” • Roger Zetter, University of Oxford