Campi profughi come spazi di soccorso in tempo di Covid-19: mobilità invisibili a Bourj Albarajenah

Journal title RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
Author/s Yafa El Masri, Paola Minoia
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/3
Language English Pages 24 P. 5-28 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rgioa3-2022oa14583
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This paper aims to explore the peculiarity of the pandemic in stateless communities. Through a case study from a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, we analyse how Palestinian refugees were affected by and responded to the pandemic. We find that the legal exclusion of refugees from the state protection has generated invisible mobility, which further increased the risk of spreading the virus. Refugees have founded their own community response mechanisms of food sharing and crowdfunding. They established Aman medical centre in the camp, which has become a destination for infected, yet undocumented, residents of the city. We conclude how Palestinian refugees used this invisible mobility to save other refugees, therefore proving how refugee camps can become spaces of rescue in times of global emergency. 

Keywords: ; Covid-19, Palestinian refugees, refugee camps, invisible mobilities, solidarity, Lebanon.

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Yafa El Masri, Paola Minoia, Campi profughi come spazi di soccorso in tempo di Covid-19: mobilità invisibili a Bourj Albarajenah in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 3/2022, pp 5-28, DOI: 10.3280/rgioa3-2022oa14583