This article examines the practices of humanitarian aid distribution from the perspective of aid recipients rather than providers through an immersion in the daily home life of Palestinian residents of Nahr al-Barid refugee camp (north Lebanon) in 2011. It argues that in the name of distributing aid fairly, humanitarian aid providers put in place a pervasive system of surveillance to monitor, evaluate, and compare residents9 misery levels by relying on locally recruited aid workers. This regime of visibility was designed to be one directional; NGOs never disclosed how much aid they had available, nor when or how it would be distributed. The inclusion of local aid workers in this opaque framework turned a process that relied on community and neighborhood ties into an impersonal machine that fostered doubt and suspicion and ultimately hindered the community9s ability to engage in collective political action.

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压裂社区：巴勒斯坦难民营的援助分配

本文通过沉浸在 2011 年 Nahr al-Barid 难民营（黎巴嫩北部）巴勒斯坦居民的日常生活中，从援助接受者而非提供者的角度审视人道主义援助分配的做法。为公平分配援助，人道主义援助提供者建立了一个普遍的监督系统，依靠当地招聘的援助人员来监测、评估和比较居民 9 的苦难程度。这种可见性机制被设计为一个方向；非政府组织从未透露他们可以获得多少援助，也没有透露何时或如何分配。