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GOVERNANCE STRATEGIES AND REFUGEE RESPONSE: LEBANON IN THE FACE OF SYRIAN DISPLACEMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2017

Tamirace Fakhoury
Tamirace Fakhoury*
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Tamirace Fakhoury is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article discusses how the Lebanese state has responded to displacement from Syria (2011–17), and how the resulting policy formulation processes and discourses have constructed the relationship between the hosting state and the refugee. It focuses especially on how this small state has negotiated its politics of reception and choice of policy tools amid dysfunctional institutions and political disputes. To this end, it uses the lens of Lebanon's model of sectarian power sharing to understand the polity's response to mass displacement. This process has been structured by the defining dynamics of the country's politics of sectarianism: slack governance, an elite fractured model, and a politics of dependence on external and domestic nonstate actors. The Lebanese model offers broader insights into types of coping mechanisms that emerge in the context of forced migration, notably when a formal refugee regime is absent. The article contends that states lacking a legal asylum framework and grappling with various governance hurdles are likely to draw on the repertoire of their political regime to deal with displacement.

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governancehumanitarianismpolicy makingrefugeessectarianism
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 49 , Special Issue 4: Forced Displacement and Refugees , November 2017 , pp. 681 - 700
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Author's note: The author is grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their input and comments.

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36 The author has carried out informal conversations with Lebanese policy makers and citizens in Beirut from 2011 until 2016. See also Nadia Massih, “The New Lens: The Arsal Crisis is Reshaping how Lebanon Views the Refugee Influx, and What to Do about It,” Executive Magazine, 29 October 2014, accessed 20 April 2016, http://www.executive-magazine.com/economics-policy/refugee-the-new-lens.

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