Ethnocracies of care and humanitarianism in Lebanon
In this article, I discuss the tendency of the humanitarian system in areas affected by crisis to provide services to people in need on a national basis, by using Lebanon as a case study. Through the research I conducted with Syrian, Iraqi, Sudanese and Palestinian refugees between 2011 and 2019 in...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios (CSEM) |
| Repository: | REMHU (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:remhu.csem.br:article/1536 |
| Online Access: | https://remhu.csem.org.br/index.php/remhu/article/view/1536 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | humanitarismo refugiados sírios deslocamento Líbano etnização ethnicization humanitarianism syrian refugees Lebanon displacement |
| Summary: | In this article, I discuss the tendency of the humanitarian system in areas affected by crisis to provide services to people in need on a national basis, by using Lebanon as a case study. Through the research I conducted with Syrian, Iraqi, Sudanese and Palestinian refugees between 2011 and 2019 in Lebanon, I will illustrate, first, how hospitality can be employed both as a practice and as a discourse. In the latter case, I will explain how it can problematically turn into an “ethnicization” force in humanitarian aid provision. As a result of a conservative use of the hospitality discourse, second, I will introduce the concept of “compensatory humanitarianism” that caters for the locals as a consequence of the refugee presence. Against this backdrop, I will finally show how the current humanitarian system is far from being inter-group despite its efforts to make programs nationally mixed... |
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