For both political and ideological reasons, return is the most favoured future imagined for refugees by policy makers and protection actors. This article analyses how humanitarian migrants in a context of limited durable solutions can be supported to reclaim ownership of their futures, as well as how this can result in deeper insights for social scientists and policy makers. For the case of Syrians, this study deploys futures literacy labs as a participatory and capability-based research methodology that allows participants to become researchers of their own lives. Based on two futures literacy labs with two Syrian families in Lebanon in 2020 and 2021, the article demonstrates that a futures capability-based approach provides humanitarian migrants with the cognitive space and agency needed to go beyond foreclosed decision-making processes. The research methodology allows researchers to become witnesses to intimate reappropriation and learning processes by humanitarian migrants themselves. As a result, we are able to argue that ‘returns’ as a durable solution are essentially about a return to a state of well-being and possibilities, which may or not entail a spatial return.

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谁拥有黎巴嫩叙利亚人的未来？难民自身寻找持久解决方案的亲密家庭探索

出于政治和意识形态的原因，返回是政策制定者和保护行动者为难民设想的最有利的未来。本文分析了如何在持久解决方案有限的情况下支持人道主义移民重新掌握他们的未来，以及这如何为社会科学家和政策制定者带来更深刻的见解。对于叙利亚人的案例，这项研究将未来素养实验室部署为一种参与式和基于能力的研究方法，让参与者成为他们自己生活的研究者。基于 2020 年和 2021 年黎巴嫩两个叙利亚家庭的两个未来扫盲实验室，该文章表明，基于未来能力的方法为人道主义移民提供了超越取消抵押品赎回权的决策过程所需的认知空间和机构。该研究方法使研究人员能够亲眼目睹人道主义移民自己的再利用和学习过程。因此，我们可以争辩说，“回归”作为一种持久的解决方案，本质上是关于回归幸福和可能性的状态，这可能需要也可能不需要空间回归。