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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Lebanon Support, 2020.
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This paper summarises the findings of a research project on humanitarian work with Syrian refugee men, focused on Za‘tari Refugee Camp in Jordan. It argues that, for humanitarians, refugee men present a challenge. They are read in gendered and racialized ways, as independent, agential, political and at times threatening, and thereby disrupt humanitarian visions of refugeehood as a passive, feminised subject position. In this paper, these arguments are demonstrated through an exploration of some of the key areas the research focused on: how Syrian men were understood as objects of humanitarian care, how humanitarians understood Syrian men’s (non-)“vulnerability,” and Syrian men’s attempts to create livelihoods opportunities in the camp. The paper is based on extensive ethnographic participant-observation in the camp, and interviews with humanitarian workers and Syrian refugees in Jordan, which was undertaken in 2015-2016.
Author(s): Turner L
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Civil Society Review
Year: 2020
Volume: 1
Issue: 4
Pages: 48-59
Print publication date: 01/07/2020
Online publication date: 01/07/2020
Acceptance date: 24/10/2019
Date deposited: 23/10/2020
ISSN (print): 2617-6025
Publisher: Lebanon Support
URL: https://doi.org/10.28943/CSR.004.004
DOI: 10.28943/CSR.004.004
