Recent studies in the field of Performance Studies have examined the performativity and spatial practices in refugee camps with particular attention to the political consequences of these psycho-social performances on refugees. This article complements such scholarship by: first, providing a more performance-centric definition of the term “refugee” with recourse to the idea of “transience”; second, by concretizing this (re)definition via analyzes of the socio-political consequences of the architecture of one of the most recently established refugee camps located in Jordan, namely Azraq. The article concludes by framing refugee camps more broadly as biopolitical environments that deprive refugees of their political agency; by homogenizing their inhabitants, they inscribe individuals into a state of perpetual transience.

绩效研究领域中的最新研究已经检查了难民营的性能和空间实践，特别关注了这些心理社会行为对难民的政治后果。本文通过以下方式对此类学术研究进行了补充：首先，借助“短暂性”的概念，对“难民”一词提供了更以表现为中心的定义；第二，通过分析约旦最近建立的一个难民营之一即阿兹拉格的建筑的社会政治后果，具体化（重新）定义。文章最后以更广泛地将难民营构筑为生物政治环境，剥夺了难民的政治代理权。通过使居民同质化，他们将个人铭刻在永恒的过渡状态。