...Marwa Sobhy Montaser Purpose This paper aims at contributing to our understanding of how self-settled Syrian refugees (registered and non-registered) use informal practices to forge their non-political agency and how this agency could be considered as political acts. Design/methodology/approach...

... represents a private policy actor. Through content analysis of a major German newspaper, the aim is to provide an example of how the media constructs ‘refugees’ and the link between such construction and the policy targeting them. In September 2013, the number of Syrian refugees reached one million...