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"The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship and Temporary Protection in Turkey" is a book that focuses on the situation of Syrians living under temporary protection in Turkey. The authors argue that temporary protection regulations often place Syrians in greater precarity, without permanent pathways to residency or citizenship. The book is based on extensive ethnographic research and interviews with Syrians, highlighting their experiences and perspectives. It also explores how Syrians actively negotiate and resist their precarious conditions through community initiatives and onward journeys to resettlement elsewhere. The authors emphasize the need for refugee rights and protection to be the starting point for any reforms to the international refugee system. [Extracted from the article]

The authors state their goal of extending the global, geographical and cultural reach of the journal while continuing fostering the productive transdisciplinary conversations between international relations, political theory and sociology.

This article examines how historical and geographical relations of injustice are 'made present' through the activities of the City of Sanctuary network in Sheffield, the UK. In so doing, it exposes the limitations of conceptualizing and enacting sanctuary through the frame of hospitality, and proposes an analytics of 'rightful presence' as an alternative frame with which to address contemporary sanctuary practices. In contrast to a body of scholarship and activism that has focused on hospitality as extending the bounds of citizenship to 'include' those seeking refuge, we consider how the 'minor' politics of City of Sanctuary potentially trouble the assumptions on which such claims to inclusion rest. Our emphasis on the 'minor' politics of 'making present' injustices is important in bringing to bear an account of justice that is grounded in concrete political struggles, in contrast to the more abstract notion of a justice 'to come,' associated with some accounts of hospitality. To explore sanctuary practices through a relational account of justice brings to bear a politically attuned account of rightful presence, which potentially challenges pastoral relations of guest-host and the statist framing of sanctuary with which relations of hospitality are intimately bound. This is important, we conclude, in countering the assumption that including the excluded solves the 'problem,' or relieves the 'crisis,' of asylum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International Political Sociology (2021)15,1 Editorial:AcknowledgingPeerReview Excellencefor2020 DEBBIE LISLE,VICKI SQUIRE,ROXANNE DOTY, AND ALEX HALL There is no way this small acknowledgment can do justice to the amazing work our peer reviewers carried out for the journal this year. So, with all the gratitude, appreciation, and humility we can muster, we are delighted to announce the following: WinneroftheIPSPeerReviewPrizeforVolume14(2020): Daniel Levine HonorableMentions: Jonathan L. Austin Neil Balan Matt Davies Mark Franke Kerry Goettlich Catherine Goetze Nicole Sunday Grove Katherine M. Millar Laura Pantzerhielm Anna Stavrianakis Maria Stern Samid Suliman Delacey Tedesco Nicole Wegner Lisle, Debbie et al. (2021) Editorial: Acknowledging Peer Review Excellence for 2020. As the global juggernaut of Covid-19 unfolded and we tried to manage our editorial duties alongside caring responsibilities, home schooling, teaching, supervision, marking, personal tutoring, reference writing and more, our peer reviewers carried on stoically behind the scenes. [Extracted from the article]

An editorial is presented highlighting the contributions made by peer reviewers to the International Political Sociology (IPS) periodical for Volume 12 of 2018 and awards given to them including Anne-Marie D-Aoust as winner and honorable mentions include Neil Balan and Joe Turner.