Gender, conscription and protection, and the war in Syria

Abstract

The struggles endured by men who remain inside Syria and the obstacles faced by others who choose to remove themselves from the fighting by fleeing the country demonstrate a need to redefine classic conceptions of vulnerability and to consider civilian men and their needs as part of a solution rather than a problem.

Keywords

• refugee
• IDP
• stateless
• internal displacement
• forced migration
• migration
• Syria crisis
• Syria
• refugees
• protracted displacement
• men
• vulnerability