eprintid: 10102977
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creators_name: Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E
title: Responding to Precarity: Beddawi Camp in the Era of Covid-19
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divisions: UCL
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keywords: Beddawi camp, Covid-19, mutual aid, Palestinian refugee, Syrian refugee, Ramadan
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abstract: How are refugees responding to protect themselves and others in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic? How do these responses relate to diverse local, national, and international structures of inequality and marginalization? Drawing on the case of Beddawi camp in North Lebanon, I argue that local responses—such as sharing information via print and social media, raising funds for and preparing iftar baskets during Ramadan, and distributing food and sanitation products to help people practice social distancing—demonstrate how camp residents have worked individually and collectively to find ways to care for Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi, Kurdish, and Lebanese residents alike, thereby transcending a focus on nationality-based identity markers. However, state, municipal, international, and media reports pointing to Syrian refugees as having imported the virus into Beddawi camp place such local modes of solidarity and mutuality at risk. This article thus highlights the importance of considering how refugee-refugee assistance initiatives relate simultaneously to: the politics of the self and the other, politically produced precarity, and multi-scalar systems that undermine the potential for solidarity in times of overlapping precarities.
date: 2020
date_type: published
publisher: University of California Press
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1525/jps.2020.49.4.27
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
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elements_id: 1794241
doi: 10.1525/jps.2020.49.4.27
lyricists_name: Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena
lyricists_id: EFIDD31
actors_name: Thomas, Chloe
actors_id: CTHOM59
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Palestine Studies
volume: 49
number: 4
pagerange: 27-35
citation:        Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E;      (2020)    Responding to Precarity: Beddawi Camp in the Era of Covid-19.                   Journal of Palestine Studies , 49  (4)   pp. 27-35.    10.1525/jps.2020.49.4.27 <https://doi.org/10.1525/jps.2020.49.4.27>.       Green open access   
 
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