#Home Across the Border: Syrian Journeys of Displacement and Belonging
Janifer Yasmin For some people, home is a house, a street, a neighbourhood or a familiar landscape. For others, home is found in family, language, memories and everyday routines. But what happens when a person is forced to leave all of these behind? For many Syrians, displacement has meant much more than moving from one country to another. It has meant leaving behind homes, relatives, work, schools and familiar communities, while trying to build a new life somewhere else. For those who crossed into Türkiye, the journey did not end when they crossed the border. In many ways, another journey began: the journey of finding safety, rebuilding everyday life and asking what it means to belong to a new place. This is the story of movement from Syria to Türkiye—not simply as a story of crossing a border, but as a story of people trying to rebuild a sense of home. Leaving Syria Before displacement, people had ordinary lives. They worked, studied, raised children, visited relatives ...