Refugee-led humanitarianism in Lebanon’s Shatila camp

Abstract

Refugee-led humanitarian initiatives by ‘established’ Palestinian refugees in response to the arrival of ‘new’ displaced Syrians to Shatila camp raise key questions about the limitations of the humanitarian system and representations of refugees as passive victims.

Keywords

• refugee
• IDP
• stateless
• internal displacement
• forced migration
• migration
• Syria crisis
• Syrian conflict
• anniversary
• Middle East
• Palestinian