Syrians returning to their homeland face a dire economic situation. Forced returns could aggravate social conflicts over work and housing.
Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian socialist activist, academic, and founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever. He is part of the “Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria” project at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is the author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God (Pluto Press, 2016) and Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto Press and Haymarket, 2019).
