"May God Bless the Hand that Works": Stories from Displaced Syrian Farmworkers during Covid-19

Mohammed must stretch his salary thin. Every month, he sends
$100 “south” to his family back in Syria.
His parents in Syria
are retired, and he
also has three
brothers back home.
Before the pandemic,
Mohammed’s cousin
travelled from Turkey
to Syria to collect
the remittances.
“Eyd I h ie
cl i f...
wrs n i t
f r ’ lae.”
Mohammed misses his family, but he does not plan to go back
to Syria because his parents tell him the situation is
still very bad.