Syrian-Armenian Women Migrants in Armenia

Gender, Identity, and Painful Belonging

By: Anahid Matossian

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Hardcover | 20 February 2025

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After the outbreak of the 2011 Syrian War, a number Syrian-Armenians who had lived in the territory for generations, fled to the Republic of Armenia. This book traces the experiences of Syrian-Armenian women as they navigated their changing and gendered identities from their adopted âhomelandâ to their socially constructed new âancestralâ home in Armenia. The rich ethnographic research conducted over 6 years by the author reveals how women adjusted to new lives in Armenia, supported themselves through gendered work such as embroidery production, yet mostly challenge simple identities such as ârefugeeâ or ârepatriate,â existing in a state of what the author terms âpainful belongingâ. The book further reveals crucial insight into how experiences and traumatic memories of war in Syria and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict reciprocally shape each other in the minds of the women interviewed.

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