The paper studies Syrian Armenians temporarily or permanently settled in the Republic of Armenia (RA) as once-more refugees and argues that this refugee crisis provides new motivation for establishing a collective memory of the Armenian Genocide.
The paper is based on extensive interviews with ten Syrian-Armenian refugees, in which it becomes evident that these refugees see their settlement in RA as a continuation of their refugee identity. Alongside the interviews Syrian Armenian survivors' memoirs have been researched and referred to in order to validate the author's arguments. Thus, a renewed version of perception of oneself as a refugee in the third and fourth generation is registered.
Based on the experience of these Syrian Armenian refugees, the paper describes memory of the Genocide from a human archeological memory perspective.