This three-year research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, studied the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on Arab statehood, mainly from an International Relations perspective. Filippo's research focused on how Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq have coped with the influx of forced migrants generated by the Syrian crisis since 2011 and what consequences this process had on the state as an institution. A research paper, produced as part of the project, focuses on the Lebanese government’s record regarding the refugee crisis since the Syrian civil war began in 2011 and investigates ways in which the different stakeholders can work together to stem the crisis and plan for Lebanon’s future. 

Publications

Filippo Dionigi, ‘Rethinking Borders: The Dynamics of Syrian Displacement to Lebanon’, Middle East Law and Governance 9/3 (November 2017), pp. 232–48.

Filippo Dionigi, ‘Reverse Moralism and the Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis’, Middle East Institute - Refugees Adrift? Responses to Crises in the MENA and Asia (July 2017).

Filippo Dionigi, ‘Statehood and Refugees: Patterns of Integration and Segregation of Refugee Populations in Lebanon from a Comparative Perspective’, Middle East Law and Governance 9/2 (April 2017), pp. 113–46.

Filippo Dionigi, ‘Rethinking Borders: The Case of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon’, POMEPS Studies 25 (February 2017).

Filippo Dionigi, 'The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: State Fragility and Social Resilience', LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series 15 (March 2016). 

Filippo Dionigi, 'Lebanon is revising its policies towards the Syrian refugee crisis, but are the new measures in its real interest?', LSE Middle East Centre Blog (May 2015). 

Principal Investigator