Voices of the Stateless: Political Agency and Everyday Resilience Among Palestinian Refugee Youth in Lebanon Amid the 2024-2025 War
(2025) SIMZ11 20251Graduate School
- Abstract
- The Palestinian refugee question is one of the most protracted and politically charged refugee crises of modern times and in modern history. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have endured generations of statelessness, constrained by exclusionary legal frameworks. This study examines the condition of statelessness among Palestinian refugee youth in Lebanon and the formation of political agency and everyday resilience amid the recent war. This qualitative exploratory study is based on twelve interviews with Palestinian refugee youth from five distinct UNRWA-administered refugee camps in Lebanon. This study, rooted in theories of liminality, belonging politics, social resilience, and political agency, examines how Palestinian refugee youth... (More)
- The Palestinian refugee question is one of the most protracted and politically charged refugee crises of modern times and in modern history. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have endured generations of statelessness, constrained by exclusionary legal frameworks. This study examines the condition of statelessness among Palestinian refugee youth in Lebanon and the formation of political agency and everyday resilience amid the recent war. This qualitative exploratory study is based on twelve interviews with Palestinian refugee youth from five distinct UNRWA-administered refugee camps in Lebanon. This study, rooted in theories of liminality, belonging politics, social resilience, and political agency, examines how Palestinian refugee youth challenge their prolonged liminality and assert their political agency. The findings highlight navigating exclusion by asserting political agency through everyday acts of resilience, affirming belonging and identity, challenging the concept of 'stateless refugee' status, as well as the effects of the recent war and institutional crisis. This study contributes to the literature on youth political agency, statelessness, and refugee studies. (Less)
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- author
- Chikfa, Yara
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SIMZ11 20251
- year
- 2025
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Palestinian refugees, statelessness, political agency, social resilience, Lebanon, politics of belonging, liminality
- language
- English
- id
- 9207281
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- 2025-07-28 13:47:00
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abstract = {{The Palestinian refugee question is one of the most protracted and politically charged refugee crises of modern times and in modern history. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have endured generations of statelessness, constrained by exclusionary legal frameworks. This study examines the condition of statelessness among Palestinian refugee youth in Lebanon and the formation of political agency and everyday resilience amid the recent war. This qualitative exploratory study is based on twelve interviews with Palestinian refugee youth from five distinct UNRWA-administered refugee camps in Lebanon. This study, rooted in theories of liminality, belonging politics, social resilience, and political agency, examines how Palestinian refugee youth challenge their prolonged liminality and assert their political agency. The findings highlight navigating exclusion by asserting political agency through everyday acts of resilience, affirming belonging and identity, challenging the concept of 'stateless refugee' status, as well as the effects of the recent war and institutional crisis. This study contributes to the literature on youth political agency, statelessness, and refugee studies.}},
author = {{Chikfa, Yara}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Voices of the Stateless: Political Agency and Everyday Resilience Among Palestinian Refugee Youth in Lebanon Amid the 2024-2025 War}},
year = {{2025}},
}