List of Figures
Foreword
Michel Agier
Introduction: Continental Encampment: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe
Are John Knudsen and Kjersti G. Berg
Chapter 1. An Imperial Lens on Refuge in Greater Syria: Antecedents to Contemporary Humanitarian Practices
Dawn Chatty
Chapter 2. The Global Origins
Mass-migration, conflict and poverty are now persistent features of our globalised world. This reference book for social workers and service providers offers constructive ideas for practice within an inter-disciplinary framework.
Each chapter speaks to a skill and knowledge area that is key to this work, bringing together myriad voices from across disciplines, interspersed with the vital perspectives of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants themselves. The book discusses the specific
Nereida Ripero-Muñiz is a lecturer in the School of Literature, Language and Media at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She has been working with the Somali diaspora in the African continent for the last ten years, having conducted and collaborated different research projects and publications on the topic.
Jan-Jonathan Bock is Programme Director of Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, United Kingdom. His publications include Austerity, Community Action and the Future of Citizenship in Europe (2018), co-edited with Shana Cohen and Christina Fuhr.
Funding Acknowledgment
Note to Reader
Introduction
1. The Politics of Displacement in Lebanon
2. Lebanon's Assistance Landscape
3. Politicizing Aid and Moralizing Politics: Old Formulas, New Scenarios
4. Ethnocracies of Care and Order
5. Humanitarian Distances and the "Southist" Need to Be There
6. The Trojan Horses of Humanitarianism
Appendix: Key Dates in Lebanon's Political History
Bibliography
Index