当前位置: X-MOL 学术Journal of Palestine Studies › 论文详情
Our official English website, www.x-mol.net, welcomes your feedback! (Note: you will need to create a separate account there.)
Responding to Precarity: Beddawi Camp in the Era of Covid-19
Journal of Palestine Studies ( IF 0.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 , DOI: 10.1525/jps.2020.49.4.27
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh 1
Affiliation  

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

中文翻译:

应对不稳定:Covid-19 时代的贝达维营地

在 Covid-19 大流行期间,难民如何应对以保护自己和他人?这些反应与不同的地方、国家和国际不平等和边缘化结构有何关联?借鉴黎巴嫩北部贝达维营地的案例,我认为当地的反应——例如通过印刷品和社交媒体分享信息、在斋月期间筹集资金和准备开斋篮,以及分发食品和卫生产品以帮助人们保持社交距离——展示营地居民如何单独和集体努力寻找照顾巴勒斯坦、叙利亚、伊拉克、库尔德和黎巴嫩居民的方法,从而超越对基于国籍的身份标记的关注。
更新日期:2020-01-01
down
wechat
bug