With the largest refugee population per capita in the world, Lebanon now officially hosts at least 1.1 million Syrian refugees. Until late 2014, the Lebanese government maintained de facto open borders and little to no regulation of Syrians within its borders. This period has largely been understood as one of state absence: referred to broadly as a “policy of no-policy.” This paper looks at the way in which state inaction played a major role in structuring the responses that did emerge, both “below” and “above” the state, from local authorities and international agencies. I shed light on how indirect measures taken by the central government facilitated and encouraged greater local autonomy in governing the refugee presence. This, in turn, further decentralized and fragmented the current set of responses to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon and legitimized discretionary action by municipal authorities.

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“ Stoffoffish”政策制定：黎巴嫩人对叙利亚流离失所危机的反应无所作为和变化

黎巴嫩是世界上人均人口最多的国家，黎巴嫩目前正式收容至少110万叙利亚难民。直到2014年下半年，黎巴嫩政府一直维持事实上的开放边界，几乎没有对叙利亚境内的叙利亚人进行监管。这一时期在很大程度上被理解为国家缺席的时期：广泛地称为“无政策政策”。本文探讨了国家无为而为在构造来自国家当局“下”和“之上”的地方当局和国际机构做出的反应时起主要作用的方式。我阐明了中央政府采取的间接措施如何促进和鼓励更大的地方自治权来管理难民。反过来，