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Book SynopsisThe recent influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan and Lebanon has stimulated domestic political action against these countries'' governments. This is the dramatic argument at the heart of Anne Marie Baylouny''s When Blame Backfires.
Baylouny examines the effects on Jordan and Lebanon of hosting huge numbers of Syrian refugees. How has the populace reacted to the real and perceived negative effects of the refugees? In thought-provoking analysis, Baylouny shows how the demographic changes that result from mass immigration put stress on existing problems in these two countries, worsening them to the point of affecting daily lives. One might expect that, as a result, refugees and minorities would become the focus of citizen anger. But as When Blame Backfires demonstrates, this is not always the case.
What Baylouny exposes, instead, is that many of the problems that might be associated with refugees are in fact endemic to the normal routine of citizens'' lives.
Trade Review
Anne Marie Baylouny argues that Jordan and Lebanon's hosting of Syrian refugees has given rise to domestic political movements against their governments.
* The Middle East Journal *
[Baylouny's] research question remains timely and intriguing.
* The Middle East Book Review *
Given its original emphasis on local communities' mobilization attempts, this research is a good contribution to citizenship studies. [T]he book provides thought-provoking arguments about the mechanisms, roles, and types of blaming and grievances.
* Mobilization: An International Quaterly *
Anne Marie Baylouny's When Blame Backfires: Syrian Refugees and Citizen Grievances in Jordan and Lebanon seeks to contribute to this field with a thoughtful and well-researched longitudinal study that reflects on the multi-directional dynamic of the host-and-guest relationship of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan.
* The International Spectator *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Scapegoats or Solutions
1. Before the Syrian Crisis
2. Enter the Syrians
3. From Brothers in Need to Invaders
4. Grievances against Governance
5. Pushed to the Edge
Conclusion: Refugees and Changing State-Citizen Relations
