Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees

Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University, where she is Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies. Her most recent publications include America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins (Stanford, 2018) and The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East (Princeton, 2012).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Un-Settling Middle Eastern RefugeesLucia Volk and Marcia C. InhornPart I: (Dis)Counting RefugeesChapter 1. When States Need Refugees: Iraqi Kurdistan and the Security AlibiKali RubaiiChapter 2. Navigating Precarity, Prejudice, and “Return”: The (Un)Settlement of Displaced Afghans in Iran and AfghanistanNaysan AdlparvarChapter 3. Unsettling “Refugees” as a Category: Labeling, Imagined Populations, and Statistics in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in BeirutGustavo BarbosaPart II: Protesting ExclusionChapter 4. Middle Eastern Refugeehood in the Happiest Place on Earth: Syrians and Iraqis Entering Finland’s Welfare State BureaucracyLindsay A. GiffordChapter 5. “I Live Here; I Have a Right to be Here”: An Afghan Refugee’s Disorientations and Insistence on Inclusion through TheaterJulie Nynne BuneChapter 6. Demanding their Welcome: Agency-in-Waiting at a Protest Camp in Dortmund, GermanyLucia VolkPart III: Making Lives in ExileChapter 7. Living as Enduring: The Struggle for Life against the Limits of Refuge among Gaza Refugees in JordanMichael Vicente PérezChapter 8. Reimagining “the Arab Way” in Exile: Futures “Off Line” among Syrian Men in AmmanEmilie Lund MortensenChapter 9. Proactive Reciprocity: Educational Trajectories Reclaimed through Patterns of Care among Refugee Men in GreeceÁrdís K. IngvarsPart IV: Seeking HealthChapter 10. America’s Wars and Iraqis’ Lives: Toxic Legacies, Refugee Vulnerabilities, and Regimes of Exclusion in the United StatesMarcia C. InhornChapter 11. Regimes of Exclusion in the Reproductive Healthcare Setting: Exploring Experiences of Syrian Refugees in San Diego, CaliforniaMorgen ChalmiersChapter 12. Valuing Health, Negotiating Paradoxes: Medicalization of the Hymen, Hymenoplasty, and Women’s Healthcare in OntarioVerena E. KozmannPart V: Reshaping HumanitarianismChapter 13. A Death Sentence? UNWRA in the Trump EraKhaldun BsharaChapter 14. Race, Religion, and Afghan Refugees’ Practices of Care in GreeceZareena A. GrewalChapter 15. Blurred Lines and Syrian Tea: Negotiations of Humanitarian-Refugee Relationships in FranceRachel J. FarellChapter 16. Inclusive Partnerships: Building Resilience Humanitarianism with Syrian Refugee Youth in JordanCatherine Panter-BrickConclusion: Rethinking Exclusion and Inclusion in Refugee ResettlementMarcia C. Inhorn and Lucia VolkIndex

“This book is especially vital for North American readers in showing the breadth and complexity of Middle Eastern refugee flows, the widely varying ways that different countries respond to them, and the limitations and options of the refuge sought and sometimes found. Though attention to Canada and the US is limited, the focus on health issues is valuable, especially for highlighting the physical and social barriers that refugee women confront. Highly Recommended.” • Choice“[This] is a complex and most enlightening work in which each chapter provides very important insights on refugee-related policies in different contexts. And it is here that the book is of utmost importance as it is through state policies, practices, and behaviours that displaced populations are prevented from being treated humanely and obtain stable legal statuses that recognize them as worthy of being welcomed, beyond the present reductionist labels of ‘refugees’ or ‘displaced’ persons. As such, this work is important for policy makers, graduate students, scholars, and faculty as well as the well-read citizen who seeks clarity, explanation, and solutions to a socio-political phenomenon of world-wide importance.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)“The book offers an important and much-needed contribution to the anthropological literature on displacement and humanitarianism, as well as to the interdisciplinary study of Middle Eastern refugees… it addresses an important gap in both academic and public debates on its subject matter in an eloquent and powerful way.” • Secil Dagtas, University of Waterloo