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Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty

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Refugee Governance in Lebanon

Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty

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Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty book

Refugee Governance in Lebanon
ByNora Stel
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2020
eBook Published 24 July 2020
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429434716
Pages 264
eBook ISBN 9780429434716
Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Stel, N. (2020). Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty: Refugee Governance in Lebanon (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429434716

ABSTRACT

Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita worldwide and is central to European policies of outsourcing migration management. Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty is the first book to critically and comprehensively explore the parallels between the country’s engagement with the recent Syrian refugee influx and the more protracted Palestinian presence.

Drawing on fieldwork, qualitative case-studies, and critical policy analysis, it questions the dominant idea that the haphazardness, inconsistency, and fragmentation of refugee governance are only the result of forced displacement or host state fragility and the related capacity problems. It demonstrates that the endemic ambiguity that determines refugee governance also results from a lack of political will to create coherent and comprehensive rules of engagement to address refugee ‘crises.’

Building on emerging literatures in the fields of critical refugee studies, hybrid governance, and ignorance studies, it proposes an innovative conceptual framework to capture the spatial, temporal, and procedural dimensions of the uncertainty that refugees face and to tease out the strategic components of the reproduction and extension of such informality, liminality, and exceptionalism. In developing the notion of a ‘politics of uncertainty,’ ambiguity is explored as a component of a governmentality that enables the control, exploitation, and expulsion of refugees.

Introduction Chapter of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |29 pages

Introduction

Institutional ambiguity and the politics of uncertainty: a new perspective on refugee governance

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chapter Chapter 1|25 pages

The Lebanese state

Twilight institutions and the making of hybrid order

chapter Chapter 2|31 pages

The governance of Syrian refugees in Lebanon

No-policy-policy and formal informality

chapter Chapter 3|32 pages

Governing Syrian ‘informal tented settlements’ in Lebanon

Co-opted shawishes, elusive permissions, and the specter of eviction

chapter Chapter 4|34 pages

The governance of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

Permanent temporariness and the state of exception

chapter Chapter 5|34 pages

Governing Lebanon’s Palestinian ‘gatherings’

Forsaken settlements, disowned committees, and looming displacement

chapter Chapter 6|28 pages

Knowledge and power revisited

The politics of uncertainty as maintaining, feigning, and imposing ‘ignorance’

chapter |29 pages

Reflections and contributions

Critically studying refugeeness, governance, and strategic ambiguity in Lebanon and beyond
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