SYRIAN REFUGEES REARRANGING THEIR DISRUPTED LIVES INBETWEEN OBSCURITIES OF SOCIAL CAPITAL, OPACITIES OF INTEGRATION AND AMBIGUITIES OF DISPLACEMENT

Primary Author or Creator:
Alexander Law
Additional Author(s) / Creators
Fawad Khaleel, Alija Avdukic, Michelle Young
Publisher:
Scottish Refugee Council
Alternative Published Date
2023
Type of Resource:
Article
Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)
11pp
Fast Facts

Displacement is one of the biggest hurdles in daily life place-making for Syrian refugees living in Scotland.

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Entries show the state of being, contemplation on expectations, searching but not seeing, convalescing the broken rhythms of everyday life during the pandemic. Findings shows that all participants were actively involved in recreation of everyday rhythms – however the realities of Covid-19 lockdown and social experiences of post Covid-19 resulted in a continuous cycle of formation, deformation, reformation of Syrian Refugees. From visual point there is an overarching theme of ‘emptiness’, where the time and space has merged into the notion of nostalgia of what once was and horror of what now is search for belonging and notion of home.

Keywords
English