Refugee Hosts

Since 2011, over 5 million refugees from Syria have sought safety across Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey from the on-going conflict, with local communities, civil society groups, established refugee communities, and faith-based organisations providing essential assistance, solidarity and support to refugees. However, little is known regarding the motivations, nature and impacts of such ‘local responses’ to conflict-induced displacement. The Refugee Hosts project has been exploring such responses through interdisciplinary research in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.

The Refugee Hosts project is supported by:

Publications

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Poetry

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Soundscapes

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Video and Podcasts

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Conference Archive

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Gallery

Photography has played a key role throughout the Refugee Hosts project, not only ‘documenting’ (or ‘archiving’) the dynamics taking place across the camps, cities and towns in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey where we have been conducting research, but also as a means of reflecting on the process of research itself. Many of these images have…