Archetypes of Escape #4: “I would like to reunite with my family”
Includes hoping to reunite with children and parents who have already made the journey to Europe or the US.
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Archetypes of Escape #3: “I want my family to thrive”
Includes: leaning toward improved business opportunities; career advancement; educational opportunities
Read MoreArchetypes of Escape #1: “I was in extreme danger where I was (or my family was)”
Includes: political, ethnic and religious violence; threat of conscription; household conflict; violence from land disputes and other violence; violence from
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“Worth the 500-Mile Walk”
A young Syrian professional’s journey to “the-country-North-of-Turkey” that he wants to explore. Here he sets off through the wilds for
Read MoreAhmed’s Journey from Syria to Turkey via Lebanon and Egypt
A family man zig-zags across income streams, kinship ties, banks and modes of money transfer.
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Financial Journey of Refugees in the Mediterranean
What can money reveal about the experience of migration? This video, created by Charlie Bentley, highlights the groundbreaking research of Kim Wilson and Roxani Krystalli, using finance as a lens to understand migration journeys throughout the Mediterranean.
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‘I followed the flood’: A Gender Analysis of the Moral and Financial Economies of Forced Migration
An article by Roxanne Krystalli, Allyson Hawkins, and Kim Wilson, published in “Disasters.” What would a gender analysis of refugee crises reveal if one expanded the focus beyond female refugees, and acts of physical violence? This paper draws on qualitative research conducted in Denmark, Greece, Jordan, and Turkey in July and August 2016 to spotlight the gendered kinship, hierarchies, networks, and transactions that affect refugees. The coping strategies of groups often overlooked in the gender conversation are examined throughout this study, including those of male refugees and those making crossings outside of the context of a family unit. The analysis is theoretically situated at the intersection of critical humanitarianism and the politics of vulnerability, and rooted in debates about the feminisation of refugees and corresponding protection agendas. A key contribution of this work is the ethnographic tracing of how refugees embody these politics along their journeys.
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The Financial Journey of Refugees: Evidence from Greece, Jordan, and Turkey
A full report, executive summary, and a compendium of field notes, by Kim Wilson and Roxanne Krystalli. The Financial Journeys of Refugees investigates what money and financial transactions can reveal about the journeys and experiences of forced migration. We examine money as a key node of the displacement experience: fueling transactions among formal and informal actors along the way; determining livelihood options; shaping or restructuring kinship networks; and coloring risks, vulnerabilities, or protective forces available to refugees. Our inquiry highlights these transactions and the power dynamics that unfold among refugees as well as between refugees and formal or informal authorities.
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Financial Journeys in Greece, Turkey and Jordan
In this video, Kim Wilson and Roxanne Krystalli discuss their research exploring the formal and informal financial systems used by refugees in Greece, Turkey and Jordan.
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