Lama Mourad
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lama Mourad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lama |
| FAMILY NAME | Mourad |
| SIGNATURE | MOURAD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2868-2771 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bringing the Border In
Borders are increasingly understood not as fixed territorial lines, but as dispersed and shifting regimes enacted through law, bureaucracy, spatial regulation, and everyday governance. While scholarship on migration control has traced these dynamics through concepts such as externalisation, internal bordering, and bureaucratic bordering, most analyses have focused on the Global North. This article examines how such dynamics unfold in a major refu…
Brothers, Workers or Syrians? The Politics of Naming in Lebanese Municipalities
Displaced Syrians in Lebanon face a multitude of legal, social and political categories that operate together to structure their lives and opportunities. One important site of juxtaposition of these various categories can be found in the area of municipal governance, namely in the form of bannered discriminatory curfews that line the public squares of many of Lebanon’s urban neighbourhood, towns and villages. The various named ‘targets’ of these …
Transforming refugees into migrants
Since the 2015 refugee “crisis,” much has been made of the distinction between the legal category of refugee and migrant. While migration scholars have accounted for the increased blurring of these two categories through explanations of institutional drift and policy layering, we argue that the intentional policies utilized by states and international organizations to minimize legal avenues for refugees to seek protection should also be considere…
Modes of Ordering
How and with what consequences are individuals fleeing the Syrian conflict to Lebanon given various legal, bureaucratic and social labels by humanitarian, state and local government actors? A wide array of labels are imposed; registered refugee, labourer, displaced and foreigner are only a few of the various categories that have developed to govern their presence. This article argues that each of these belongs to and reproduces various modes of o…
Standoffish” Policy-making
With the largest refugee population per capita in the world, Lebanon now officially hosts at least 1.1 million Syrian refugees. Until late 2014, the Lebanese government maintained de facto open borders and little to no regulation of Syrians within its borders. This period has largely been understood as one of state absence: referred to broadly as a “policy of no-policy.” This paper looks at the way in which state inaction played a major role in s…
Standoffish” Policy-making
With the largest refugee population per capita in the world, Lebanon now officially hosts at least 1.1 million Syrian refugees. Until late 2014, the Lebanese government maintained de facto open borders and little to no regulation of Syrians within its borders. This period has largely been understood as one of state absence: referred to broadly as a “policy of no-policy.” This paper looks at the way in which state inaction played a major role in s…
Transforming refugees into migrants
Since the 2015 refugee “crisis,” much has been made of the distinction between the legal category of refugee and migrant. While migration scholars have accounted for the increased blurring of these two categories through explanations of institutional drift and policy layering, we argue that the intentional policies utilized by states and international organizations to minimize legal avenues for refugees to seek protection should also be considere…
Modes of Ordering
How and with what consequences are individuals fleeing the Syrian conflict to Lebanon given various legal, bureaucratic and social labels by humanitarian, state and local government actors? A wide array of labels are imposed; registered refugee, labourer, displaced and foreigner are only a few of the various categories that have developed to govern their presence. This article argues that each of these belongs to and reproduces various modes of o…
Brothers, Workers or Syrians? The Politics of Naming in Lebanese Municipalities
Displaced Syrians in Lebanon face a multitude of legal, social and political categories that operate together to structure their lives and opportunities. One important site of juxtaposition of these various categories can be found in the area of municipal governance, namely in the form of bannered discriminatory curfews that line the public squares of many of Lebanon’s urban neighbourhood, towns and villages. The various named ‘targets’ of these …
Modes of Ordering
How and with what consequences are individuals fleeing the Syrian conflict to Lebanon given various legal, bureaucratic and social labels by humanitarian, state and local government actors? A wide array of labels are imposed; registered refugee, labourer, displaced and foreigner are only a few of the various categories that have developed to govern their presence. This article argues that each of these belongs to and reproduces various modes of o…
Standoffish” Policy-making
With the largest refugee population per capita in the world, Lebanon now officially hosts at least 1.1 million Syrian refugees. Until late 2014, the Lebanese government maintained de facto open borders and little to no regulation of Syrians within its borders. This period has largely been understood as one of state absence: referred to broadly as a “policy of no-policy.” This paper looks at the way in which state inaction played a major role in s…
Transforming refugees into migrants
Since the 2015 refugee “crisis,” much has been made of the distinction between the legal category of refugee and migrant. While migration scholars have accounted for the increased blurring of these two categories through explanations of institutional drift and policy layering, we argue that the intentional policies utilized by states and international organizations to minimize legal avenues for refugees to seek protection should also be considere…
Brothers, Workers or Syrians? The Politics of Naming in Lebanese Municipalities
Displaced Syrians in Lebanon face a multitude of legal, social and political categories that operate together to structure their lives and opportunities. One important site of juxtaposition of these various categories can be found in the area of municipal governance, namely in the form of bannered discriminatory curfews that line the public squares of many of Lebanon’s urban neighbourhood, towns and villages. The various named ‘targets’ of these …
Bringing the Border In
Borders are increasingly understood not as fixed territorial lines, but as dispersed and shifting regimes enacted through law, bureaucracy, spatial regulation, and everyday governance. While scholarship on migration control has traced these dynamics through concepts such as externalisation, internal bordering, and bureaucratic bordering, most analyses have focused on the Global North. This article examines how such dynamics unfold in a major refu…
Middle East Politics and Society (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Refugee (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Government (linguistics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Development economics (2 works)