Urban Refugees: Introduction

Fàbos, Anita; Kibreab, Gaim

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“…While Eric understood refugee settlement as temporary, to be addressed on the humanitarian relief clock of emergency spending, I understood it as a protracted crisis, one that we are likely to deal with for several years to come. While Eric’s team saw in the infrastructure of the camp an ideal solution for producing rapidly the needed housing units, I expected a large section of the Syrian refugees to capitalize on historical networks of migration and employment and prefer the independence and the opportunities offered by Lebanon’s cities over the confinement and dependency of the camps (Fábos and Kibreab, 2007; Grabska 2006).…”

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“…In this essay, I begin with the assumption that the growing global reality of long-term protracted crises and extended forced population displacements requires a shift from the “humanitarian crisis response mode” to accepting that forced population displacements are part and parcel of our global reality. Furthermore, and given global urbanization trends, most of these refugees will seek shelter, employment, and livelihoods in and across urban contexts (Campbell, 2006; Fábos and Kibreab, 2007; Jacobsen, 2006). The “refugee crisis” is hence increasingly an “urban” crisis and many of the challenges it poses fall in line with existing debates about contemporary urbanization.…”

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Planning and the refugee crisis: Informality as a framework of analysis and reflection

Fawaz

2016

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Planning and the refugee crisis: Informality as a framework of analysis and reflection

Fawaz

2016

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“…Within the self-settlement discussions, there has been a growing interest in urban refugees (Fabos and Kibreab, 2007;Sanyal, 2012). As Darling (2016) points out, the discussion of urban refugees has been relatively new as UNHCR has only recently acknowledged the growing numbers of refugees in cities in a productive manner.…”

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A no-camp policy: Interrogating informal settlements in Lebanon

Sanyal¹

2017

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As fewer refugees move into formal camps, what kinds of non-camp spaces are emerging and how does that challenge the ways in which we understand the management and politics of refuge? This paper seeks to shed light on this question through an analysis of informal settlements in Lebanon. The Syrian crisis has displaced millions of people, most of whom have moved into neighbouring countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. The Lebanese government, faced with a longer history of Palestinian camps and their militarization has refused to allow the establishment of official refugee camps for Syrians. As a result of this 'no camp' policy, Syrians are forced to either live in private rented accommodation in towns and cities throughout the country, or in informal settlements (ISes) built on private, often agricultural land. These informal settlements are built and developed through a complex assemblage of humanitarianism, hospitality, security, economic and political considerations. In this paper, I look at the physical and social spaces of informal settlements in the Bekaa Valley, Eastern Lebanon, examining how differential access to aid, support, security and tacit recognition by the state has led to variations amongst them. In doing so, I expose how an informalized response to the crisis through a system of deregulation is enabling refugee spaces to emerge that are visible, yet unrecognized, flexible, yet precarious. These spaces destabilize the city/camp dichotomy by drawing together elements of both. In engaging with debates on informality, the paper contributes to a growing critical literature on refugee geographies and seeks to expand beyond the reductive narratives of refugee camps, thereby offering insights into refugee futures in increasingly uncertain times.

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“…There is not much documentation about the movement-patterns of urban Syrian refugees, but humanitarian staff working in urban areas confirm that the refugees they assist move residence frequently in order to find cheaper places to stay or for employment. Urban Syrian refugees in Jordan, and urban refugees generally, are often invisible and mobile which causes difficulties establishing reliable information about the group and presents obstacles for assistance to reach them (Fabos and Kibreab 2007).…”

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There is no Future in Humanitarianism: Emergency, Temporality and Protracted Displacement

Brun¹

2016

History and Anthropology

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The humanitarian system and people living with and in long-term refugee situations envisage the future differently. In this article, I explore different notions of the future that may be found in humanitarian policies and among humanitarian workers. With particular reference to understandings of emergency, crisis and ethics in humanitarianism, I discuss ways in which the future is understood and practiced by humanitarian actors working in situations of protracted displacement. Analysing the policy context for Syrian refugees in Jordan in the context of the 'humanitarian reason' which tends to separate between biological and biographical lives, I identify how the future and past are separated from the present in a process that decontextualizes forced migrants both temporally and spatially. I show how humanitarian work is bound by its temporariness: it is relief and life saving. In most cases, however, humanitarian operations last much longer than anticipated. When humanitarian workers become embedded in the local context and come to know the people they assist, they feel responsibility for a shared future and may challenge -through their practices -the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence. Thus, through focusing on what humanitarian workers do, we may be able to identify practices that challenge currently accepted humanitarian ethics. By way of conclusion, and supported by feminist discussions of temporality and the ethics of care, I suggest some possible ways of integrating a concept of the future into humanitarianism. Syrian refugees in Jordan Acknowledgements:This text was first presented at the workshop "Precarious Futures? Hoping, moving and waiting in times of uncertainty" in September 2016. Nauja Kleist, Dorte Thorsen and Ida Vammen deserve a big thank you for organising an inspiring and constructive workshop at the most beautiful place in Tisvildeleje in Denmark. Many thanks to Nauja Kleist and Stef Jansen for providing the opportunity to develop the paper for this special issue, to the reviewers for their comments, and to my co-contributors for providing insightful Ingress: Stuck in the present?"Being stuck" is a spatio-temporal notion that implies that the future aspired to cannot be reached, that an undesirable situation or location cannot be escaped. It indicates temporal, social and geographical stillness. I have tried several times to use the title "stuck in the present" when writing to understand the situation in which people in protracted displacement find themselves. But every time I work on the expression of "being stuck", it becomes clear that the people, whose experiences and practices I am writing about, are not entirely stuck. The term does not quite work. We need to respect that people in protracted displacement often feel stuck: they are stuck in a status of being displaced or stuck in a war zone without the ability to escape, they feel stuck because they cannot develop their lives, stuck because they cannot control their future and because the future they of...

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Urban Refugees: Introduction

Cited by 39 publications

References 4 publications

Planning and the refugee crisis: Informality as a framework of analysis and reflection

Planning and the refugee crisis: Informality as a framework of analysis and reflection

A no-camp policy: Interrogating informal settlements in Lebanon

There is no Future in Humanitarianism: Emergency, Temporality and Protracted Displacement

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