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Jiwar: from a right of neighbourliness to a right of neighbourhood for refugees
In this paper I make the case that a closer examination of the tradition of jiwar or neighbourliness can help unsettle the binary of citizen and migrant that forecloses the possibility of accessing rights for the latter. Here, insights from human geography and social anthropology pertaining to understandings and practices of conviviality are mobilised to ask what contemporary readings of jiwar can tell us given that the nation-state dominates modalities and practices of locality production. Mobilising interview and ethnographic research material produced in partnership with Palestinian, Syrian, Sudanese, and Iraqi forced migrants over the past 8 years across multiple sites, this paper draws attention to the significance of creating and maintaining neighbourly relations and spaces as an ethical position contrasted against exclusionary nation-state and sectarian discourses and practices. Here, I draw on the Turkish state response to on-going Syrian displacement and the Syrian state’s response to the earlier displacement of Iraqis (2005-11) to illustrate how the sedentarist logic of the nation-state impedes practices of conviviality that emerge from the lived realities of encounter between those already resident and those who newly arrive.
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BrillExternal DOI
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2Page range
47-66Book title
Migration and Islamic ethics: issues of residence, naturalization and citizenshipPlace of publication
LeidenISBN
9789004406407Series
Studies in Islamic EthicsDepartment affiliated with
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Ray Jureidini, Said Fares HassanLegacy Posted Date
2019-10-24First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-02-07First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2020-02-07Usage metrics
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