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Situating Syrian-ness in France: Asylum and Diaspora in Paris (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2019)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Maddox.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. To answer the question of how exiled Syrians forge their own lifeworlds in Paris, France, this study employs ethnographic methods to explore the unique conception of Syrian-ness that emerges from biographies shaped by the legacy of French colonialism, Syrian nationalism, and the ongoing violence in Syria. While categories such as "refugee," "asylum seeker," and "French citizen of Syrian...