Displacement is underway in Lebanon after financial collapse, but not as events of migration, rather, as processual disruption to people’s lives that begins in place, preceding the potential outcome of forced migration. Financial collapse has shifted the population into extremes of constraint, dispossessing them of assets needed to live in valued ways. Widely circulated claims of an exodus are premature. Historic mass emigration from Lebanon occurred in times of capital availability whilst today’s financial collapse denies most people of the capital needed to emigrate. Migration remains limited to the few with social and cultural capital unaffected by the crisis. This article was prompted by the author’s observations of financial collapse whilst living in Lebanon in 2020 and long-standing engagement with the country. Regardless of whether mass emigration occurs, perhaps after the economy’s recapitalization, the displacement process already underway warrants attention from refugee and forced migration studies.

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黎巴嫩的流离失所和金融危机

黎巴嫩在金融崩溃后正在出现流离失所现象，但不是移民事件，而是在强迫移民的潜在结果之前就开始对人们生活造成的过程性破坏。金融崩溃使人们陷入极端的束缚，剥夺了他们以有价值的方式生活所需的资产。广泛流传的人口外流说法还为时过早。历史上黎巴嫩的大规模移民发生在资本可用的时期，而今天的金融崩溃使首都的大多数人无法移民。移民仍然仅限于少数拥有未受危机影响的社会和文化资本的人。这篇文章是作者在 2020 年居住在黎巴嫩时对金融崩溃的观察以及与该国的长期接触而促成的。不管大规模移民是否发生，或许在经济资本重组之后，已经开始的流离失所过程值得难民和强迫移民研究的关注。