Statelessness and Tribal Identity on Lebanon's Eastern Borders

Chatty, Dawn; Mansour, N. S.; Yassin, Nasser

doi:10.1080/13629395.2013.834566

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“…Although the literature on social support and solidarity among refugees of conflict across different disciplines has highlighted the importance of identity (Chatty, Mansour, & Yassin, 2013;Curley, 2009;Moulin, 2010;Palmgren, 2013), the present paper is the first to shed light on the process of support and the central role of shared social identity in these mechanisms. Other studies described the emergence of shared identity among refugees without exploring its role in social support dynamics or providing a quantitative analysis of this process (e.g., Moulin, 2010).…”

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The Role of Emergent Shared Identity in Psychosocial Support among Refugees of Conflict in Developing Countries

Alfadhli

Güler

Çakal

et al. 2019

International Review of Social Psychology

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In spite of the harsh conditions that refugees of conflicts experience for many years in exile in developing countries, there is evidence showing that refugees of conflict help each other. This study aimed to explore one possible mechanism underlying such support and sought to answer three main research questions: Do refugees share an emergent identity that facilitates support among them (similar to people affected by disasters)? Does this identity-based support have an impact on their health? If so, does this positive impact help to mitigate the negative effect of exile stressors on refugees' health? We carried out two questionnaire surveys among Syrian refugees, first in Turkey (n = 234) and then in Jordan (n = 156). The data were analysed using path analysis to test hypotheses and build a theoretical model. We found evidence suggesting a process of shared social identity-based support among the refugees. We found that the general health of refugees to be predicted mainly by stress, but we also found that collective efficacy has a positive association with health, which suggests a buffering effect. These results shed light on the process of social support among refugees of war and suggest the role of shared identity, which can have a limited buffering effect on the health of the refugees, though not enough to fully mitigate the negative effect of secondary stressors. However, we suggest that such a process can be utilised as base for interventions that approach refugees of war as a group (i.e. at community rather than individual level).

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The Role of Emergent Shared Identity in Psychosocial Support among Refugees of Conflict in Developing Countries

Alfadhli

Güler

Çakal

et al. 2019

International Review of Social Psychology

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“…Songs and dance can also have a role in solidarity as in the case of fourth generation of Palestinian refugees who use traditional dancing (dabkah) to express identity and thus create a sense of belonging. This ritual music performanceusually played at weddings and which sometimes includes hundreds of dancers -helps address A good example of identity-based solidarity is found in Lebanon in the case of undocumented Bedouins who don't have access to the official citizen-based health care system; in this case, the tribal social networks offered health care support (cash money hand-outs, loans, payment for medical bills, transportation and calls for blood donation) that extend across the Syrian borders (Chatty, Mansour, & Yassin, 2013). Another example comes from Thailand where Vietnamese social networks offered the refugees agency in spite of the policy constraints (Palmgren, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Psychosocial support among refugees of conflict in developing countries

Alfadhli¹,

Drury²

2016

Intervention

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Key implications for practice Refugees of conflicts in developing countries suffer more from secondary stressors than from trauma  Refugees have intrinsic psychosocial support mechanisms to respond to these stressors.  Shared social Identity plays an important role in these mechanisms. AbstractThe aim of this paper is to examine the psychosocial needs and stressors among refugees of conflicts in developing countries, and their group-based social support mechanisms. A systematic literature search of peer reviewed journal articles (n = 60 articles) was carried out using the following factors: type (refugee); cause (conflicts); location (developing countries). As refugees move towards a prolonged urban displacement phase, needs and stressors become different than those of the acute phase. Daily stressors affect far more people than are affected by PTSD, but many psychosocial support interventions focus simply on the latter. Positive effects of social support on the mental health of displaced people are established; the process is not clear, yet group processes and identities seem to be important. We therefore suggest that the social identity approach can be applied to understand the emergence of a common refugee identity and its role in empowerment through activating social support networks.

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“…Indeed there had been a long and complex political history between Syria and Lebanon and close ties between communities in both countries. They have shared an officially undefined and thus unresolved border, and cross border identities and movements back and forth have been common since the birth of both states (Chatty et al, 2013;Kaufman, 2013). Such intimate and complex relations translated into unconditional hospitality by the Lebanese towards the Syrians for a time.…”

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confidence: 99%

Managing through ad hoc measures: Syrian refugees and the politics of waiting in Lebanon

Sanyal¹

2018

Political Geography

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Managing through Ad Hoc Measures : Syrian Refugees and Legal Geographies in Lebanon This paper explores how the ad hoc and uneven implementation and enforcement of policies in the context of the Global South particularly in situations of large-scale refugee crises creates forms of waiting and precarity amongst refugees. This exploration is initiated by questions about how states in the Global South manage mass displacements of people whilst adhering to the principles of non-refoulement , a customary international law forbidding countries from forcibly returning refugees to conditions that may endanger their lives. How is this complicated in situations where states are not party to the Refugee convention and where refugee crises become protracted? How does this then lead to immobilizing refugees and compelling them to wait? I focus on the practices of the Lebanese state in response to the Syrian refugee crisis that has continued on from 2011. Lebanon has changed its regulations and decisions towards the large number of Syrians living in the country over the course of the crisis whilst adhering to the principle of nonrefoulement. However, the policies enacted by the government are arbitrarily implemented and enforced at different scales of governance creating legal anxieties and immobilities for Syrians in the country. I draw on the work of critical legal and political geographers to argue that the ad hoc nature of the law, creates a fragmented landscape of mobility for Syrians, exacerbating conditions of precarity and poverty and, importantly, colonizing their futures.

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Statelessness and Tribal Identity on Lebanon's Eastern Borders

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

The Role of Emergent Shared Identity in Psychosocial Support among Refugees of Conflict in Developing Countries

The Role of Emergent Shared Identity in Psychosocial Support among Refugees of Conflict in Developing Countries

Psychosocial support among refugees of conflict in developing countries

Managing through ad hoc measures: Syrian refugees and the politics of waiting in Lebanon

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