Four Buildings and a Bungalow: Architectures of Displacement in Sabra, Beirut
This chapter analyzes the urban architectures of containment in Sabra, one of Beirut’s largest informal areas hosting generations of refugees. The micro-analysis of select tenement buildings in Sabra shows that resident refugees are caught in a roundabout movement within the confines of urban poverty zones. Accounts from tenants and landlords demonstrate that humanitarian aid sustains urban informality, with migrants and urban poor serving as captive tenants. Tenants move, resettle, and traverse urban poverty zones, yet do not leave them and instead experience a city-based containment, one of the constituent elements of the regional encampment in the Middle East.
https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800738447
Are John Knudsen
Appears in:
CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe
Knudsen, Are John& Kjersti G. Berg (Eds.)
Also in this volume:
- Humanitarian Lampedusa and the Theatralisation of Crisis
De Lauri, Antonio - A Necessary Evil: A History of Palestinian Refugee Camps, UNRWA and Jordan, 1950–1970
Berg, Kjersti G.
