Abstract
Based on Chapter 4 of Siqiao Liang’s The Syrian Forced Displacement in the Middle East: Past, Present, and Future, this study discusses the external, natural factors aggravating the challenges of Syrian refugees in the Middle East. I employ two case studies, the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake. 1) My research demonstrates that the COVID-19 pandemic had a disproportionate impact on Syrian refugees in the Middle East, especially Jordan, epidemically, economically, and socially. 2) There is little literature on the impact of earthquakes on existing refugee communities. My work is probably one of the first of the kind. My data came from the 2023 earthquake. My fieldwork was in Nurdağı, one of the most deeply affected towns and one of the closest to the epicenter of the earthquake, and Gaziantep, the biggest city next to the earthquake epicenter hosting the largest number of Syrian refugees in Southern Turkey.
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SYRIAN REFUGEES; COVID-19 PANDEMIC; EARTHQUAKE; JORDAN; LEBANON; TURKEY; DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT
