Dawn Chatty

Dawn Chatty is university <a href=http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/index.html?chatty>reader</a> in anthropology and forced migration at the University of Oxford. She is the author of an online resource for the

The aid crisis for Syrian refugees

As the war is prolonged, families are exhausting their savings. Without a massive re-thinking of how aid is delivered and distributed, refugees in the region are going to look for ways to leave.

By Dawn Chatty

/ 25 Nov 2015

For young refugees from Syria, education equals hope

Young Syrian refugees have shown extradordinary resilience, but hope for their short and long-term futures hinges on better educational opportunities.

By Dawn Chatty and Sarah Wahby

/ 18 Dec 2014

High time for Europe to offer temporary protection to refugees from Syria?

The 2001 Temporary Protection Directive - created in the wake of the Yugoslav Wars - has never been activated, but it could be part of a reasonable, compassionate response to the Syrian refugee crisis.

By Dawn Chatty and Cynthia Orchard

/ 2 Oct 2014

Syria’s dismemberment: fulfilling the French Mandate’s vision?

Could the neglected strength of the mainstream Muslim community – a vestige of the Ottoman self-governing ethno-religious millet system – hold Syria together as it did nearly 100 years ago and prevent its dismemberment into a number of mini-states?

By Dawn Chatty

/ 4 Sep 2012