DEBT AND REFUGE: Syrian Farmworkers and the Politics of Displacement in Lebanon by China Sajadian

Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world, including up to 1.5 million displaced Syrians. Many are Syrian farmworkers, who for decades have sustained Lebanon's agricultural system through their seasonal labor. China Sajadian’s DEBT AND REFUGE traces how the lives of these farmworkers-turned-refugees were transformed by the war in Syria and Lebanon's devastating financial collapse.