@inbook{ddd.uab.cat:194840,
      author = {Ramírez Díaz, Naomí},
       title = {Syria's refugee crisis : history of a mass exodus},
   booktitle = {Refugiados en movimiento : retos políticos, legales y sociales
               en tiempos de inestabilidad},
       pages = {39--48},
   publisher = {Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. CER MIGRACIONS, Servei de
               Publicacions},
        year = {2018},
     address = {Bellaterra},
    abstract = {The year 2015 opened European eyes to the reality of the refugee
               crisis that had begun in 2011 in the Middle East. It was then
               that desperate families and individuals decided to put their
               lives at risk and sail off from Turkish coasts into the
               Mediterranean Sea, in terrible conditions, in order to reach
               European land and find a future for themselves and their
               children. But why would those people, mostly although by no means
               exclusively Syrian, do that instead of finding some form of safe
               passage? What were they running away from and what had prompted
               their exit from their country? Why were they not staying in
               neighboring countries as they had done for a couple of years?
               This chapter will examine the roots of the ongoing conflict in
               Syria and the reasons behind the mass exodus in a country which
               has also witnessed countless cases of forced internal
               displacement. By stating certain often forgotten facts, this
               chapter argues that most Syrians left to escape from terrorism,
               but not that of Daesh, but the Syrian State terrorism which has
               reduced several neighborhoods of two of the most important cities
               in Syria to ashes and has systematically supressed all forms of
               protest.},
         url = {https://ddd.uab.cat/record/194840},
}