Chapter Introduction Institutional Ambiguity and the Politics of Uncertainty

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dc.alternateIdentifier9780429434716
dc.creatorStel, Nora
dc.date2021-02-01T09:49:35Z
dc.date2021-02-01T09:49:35Z
dc.date2020
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T14:58:14Z
dc.descriptionLebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita worldwide and is central to European policies of outsourcing migration management. Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty is the first book to critically and comprehensively explore the parallels between the country’s engagement with the recent Syrian refugee influx and the more protracted Palestinian presence. Drawing on fieldwork, qualitative case-studies, and critical policy analysis, it questions the dominant idea that the haphazardness, inconsistency, and fragmentation of refugee governance are only the result of forced displacement or host state fragility and the related capacity problems. It demonstrates that the endemic ambiguity that determines refugee governance also results from a lack of political will to create coherent and comprehensive rules of engagement to address refugee ‘crises.’ Building on emerging literatures in the fields of critical refugee studies, hybrid governance, and ignorance studies, it proposes an innovative conceptual framework to capture the spatial, temporal, and procedural dimensions of the uncertainty that refugees face and to tease out the strategic components of the reproduction and extension of such informality, liminality, and exceptionalism. In developing the notion of a ‘politics of uncertainty,’ ambiguity is explored as a component of a governmentality that enables the control, exploitation, and expulsion of refugees.
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dc.imprintRoutledge
dc.languageeng
dc.licenseConditionAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.pages30
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.publisherHybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty
dc.publisherRoutledge
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dc.subjectrefugees; governance; politics of uncertainty; ignorance studies; Nora Stel; Syria; Lebanon; migration
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
dc.titleChapter Introduction Institutional Ambiguity and the Politics of Uncertainty

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