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Book Chapter | Mar 2024

Syrian Self-settlement in Lebanon’s ‘Arrival Cities’: Refugee Livelihoods in Tripoli, Beirut, and Tyre

Robert Forster, Are J. Knudsen (2024)
in Are J. Knudsen, Sarah A. Tobin: Urban Displacement: Syria's Refugees in the Middle East. New York, Oxford: Berghahn pp. 29-54

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https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805393016

Taking arrival cities as their point of departure, Robert Forster and Are John Knudsen compare settlement choices and outcomes for Syrian refugees living in the poorest neighbourhoods in Beirut, Tripoli and Tyre. The latter two are secondary cities trailing the capital and suffer from economic divisions and rampant inequality. The chapter demonstrates that Syrian refugees’ settlement choices and pathways are influenced by kinship networks, affordable housing and employment opportunities.

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Robert Forster

Adviser (U4)

Are John Knudsen

Research Professor, Coordinator HUMIG research group

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Urban Displacement : Syria's Refugees in the Middle East
Knudsen, Are John and Sarah Tobin (Eds.)

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