Governing the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria: The cases of Nahr el- Bared and Yarmouk camps

Introduction Camps have been presented by some humanitarian organizations and political actors as settings self evidently suitable for dealing with the refugee populations. However, when camps become the transient space for a population dwelling there for more than 60 years, like in the case of the Palestinian protracted refugees, camps become slum areas that are hard to govern.