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The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora

by Wendy Pearlman

Home, displacement, and the making of diaspora

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction finalist

    Finalist for the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction

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Home, displacement, and the making of diaspora

Drawing on hundreds of interviews gathered over more than a decade, Wendy Pearlman brings together accounts from Syrians living across five continents. The collection traces experiences of leaving and loss alongside efforts to search for, build, or redefine a sense of home. Its central question—what home means when it cannot be taken for granted—connects personal testimony to the wider Syrian refugee diaspora. By framing displacement through the lives and perspectives of those who have experienced it, the book examines home as something shaped by both struggle and achievement.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Syrian history and the refugee diaspora.
  • Those seeking interview-based accounts of displacement and rebuilding a sense of home.
  • Readers interested in personal testimony about migration, loss, and belonging.

Themes

Home and belongingDisplacement and diasporaSyrian experiences of war and migrationLoss and rebuilding

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Book overview

In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. The Home I Worked to Make takes Syria's refugee outflow as its point of departure. Based on hundreds of interviews conducted across more than a decade, it probes a question as intimate as it is universal: What is home? With gripping immediacy, Syrians now on five continents share stories of leaving, losing, searching, and finding (or not finding) home. Across this tapestry of voices, a new understanding emerges: home, for those without the privilege of taking it for granted, is both struggle and achievement. Recasting "refugee crises" as acts of diaspora-making, The Home I Worked to Make challenges readers to grapple with the hard-won wisdom of those who survive war and to see, with fresh eyes, what home means in their own lives.

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