Reflections On Refugee Political Subjectivation. The Case Of The Palestinian Refugees In Lebanon

Reflexiones sobre la subjetivación política de los refugiados. El caso de los refugiados palestinos en Líbano

Resumen

Leveraging Foucauldian perspectives on political subjectivation and its relevance to the refugee experience, this article addresses the socio-juridical violence surrounding Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, highlighting the lack of legal status, the instrumentalization of tawteen and the refugee camps as forms of subjection underpinning political subjectivation among them.

Ethnographic fieldwork findings support the argument that resignifications of both the refugee identity and the refugee camp experience, alongside early political socialization, social mobilization, and participation, serve as practices of resistance that, in themselves, account for processes, dimensions, and expressions of political subjectivation.

The main objective is to offer a critical approach to the political capacity of refugees, challenging traditional views that depict them merely as victims or threats.

Hallazgos de trabajo de campo etnográfico respaldan el que la resignificación de la identidad de refugiado y del campo de refugiados, así como una socialización política temprana y la movilización social constituyen prácticas de resistencia que dan cuenta de procesos, dimensiones y expresiones de subjetivación política.

Nuestro objetivo es ofrecer una perspectiva sociológica sobre la capacidad política de los refugiados, desafiando visiones tradicionales que los representan meramente como víctimas o amenazas.