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Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Middle East

Active since 2005

Examining community cohesion in an impermanent landscape

This ongoing study examines, from an anthropological perspective, the way in which dispossession has come to be a defining feature of life in the Middle East in the 21st century. A focus on individual narratives of migration, integration and compromise of the four major forced migrant groups in the Middle East – the Circassians, Kurds, Armenians and Palestinians – contributes to developing understanding of the coping strategies and mechanisms adopted by these societies and helps explain the relationship between politics, forced migration and identity formation in the region.

A book on this research is currently underway, to be published by Hurst and Oxford University Press.

Our team

  • Dawn Chatty
    Dawn Chatty

    Emerita Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration and former Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, 2011-2014

Selected publications