Waiting on Borders

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Waiting on Borders is written by Paul Moawad and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1649034822 (ISBN 10) and 9781649034823 (ISBN 13).

"Fairly nascent in the field of urban studies and planning, this research focuses on the Lebanese-Syrian border in informal tented settlements (ITSs) inhabited by Syrian refugees. It explores the temporal dimension of borders and the spatio-temporality and modalities of 'waiting' experienced by refugees. A powerful contribution to ongoing debates on refugees, borders, and camps, this book offers a particularly compelling and much-needed conceptualization of the politics of time and waiting. By critically engaging with existing literature and empirical cases, the author demonstrates how states weaponize time-through prolonged uncertainty, bureaucratic delays, and forced stagnation-to discipline, control, and exclude refugees. Syrian refugees' livelihood and daily habits are therefore impacted due to these hegemonic and manipulative measures creating dire conditions. They encounter a conundrum of inhibitions and subordination. However, through the intersection of these multi-hierarchical vertical and horizontal forces that take place within and outside ITSs, socio-spatial coping, adaptability and collective resiliency emerge."--