Rethinking urban interactions from the margins: Palestinians and Syrians between refugee camps and the cities

Abstract

The paper investigates how refugees living in camps experience different scales of mobility and develop a wide range of practices that extends beyond the camp's boundaries, exploring how hyper-mobile tactics of existence re-elaborate Palestinian refugee camps into meaningful places of elusive contestation. I expound on how refugees reinterpret boundaries between camps and “forms of camp spaces” through a wide spectrum of practices grounded on translocal and transnational informal networks.

Keywords: refugee camps; mobility; Lebanon; Palestinian; football