To Hijab or not to Hijab

[Montmorency]

Do tell me what kind of cultural shocks Syrians resettling in Gulf states would face. Headgear-related? Lack of tribal identity?

There is more in the world than culture, as you understand. Even leaving aside political and institutional social structures, there is of course economics, geography, ecology...

Jordan is a heavily-subsidized state, and it's government is well-organized. Lebanon, however, while organized is organized along partisan and sectarian lines such that it would be very difficult to produce a unified response to future refugee political agitation. Pointing out that the Syrians have not overwhelmed Lebanon right now? I might as well say the same for Europe.

Look at this map of Lebanon: http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/country.php?id=122
Now Jordan: http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/country.php?id=107
Might as well point out Egypt as well: http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/country.php?id=8

Note the distributions and explain how the distributions in Lebanon do not threaten stability?

The war will end someday, at which point surplus refugees could be repatriated by force if encouragement turns out to be inadequate.

Yep, totally a trivial enterprise to repatriate millions by force. Are you working with Donald Trump's campaign, by any chance?

If integration is not the goal, then secure and carefully-managed internment camps would be necessary, of the sort that housed the Japanese-Americans during WW2. That isn't the case and neither the West nor the Arab countries nor the refugees would agree to a program involving such.

On that note, a relevant bit of trivia: during WW2, the ethnic Japanese of Hawaii were never interned. Can you guess why?