Eviction and Migration in an Institutional Vacuum: The Case of a Palestinian Gathering in South Lebanon
▻http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/15370/eviction-and-migration-in-an-institutional-vacuum_
In this essay, which draws on my fieldwork weblog—especially the entries "Migration: Money over Morals?” and “Life and Law in Limbo”—I demonstrate how the categorization of gatherings is dominated by informality and institutional ambiguity. Then, by looking at two cases that I encountered in Shabriha gathering, a Palestinian “camp” located next to the Lebanese village of Shabriha, just off the coastal road entering Tyre/Sour from the North, I illustrate how this categorization has very real effects on social justice. More specifically, I explore the ways in which the forms of displacement featured in these two cases–imposed eviction and desired migration—are shaped by the institutional vacuum that characterizes the gatherings.
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