تقدّم هذه الورقة البحثية تحليل حول كيفيّة تكيَّفَ نظام اللاجئين/ات في الأردن مع احتياجات اللاجئين/ات السوريين/ات من الحماية الاجتماعية، وإلى أيّ مدى. تعرض أوّلًا في مقدمتها خصائصهم/نّ الديموغرافية الرئيسية وتطوُّر وضعهم/نّ القانوني في الأردن منذ وصولهم/نّ إلى البلد في ۲۰۱٢/۲۰۱١. ومن هذا المنطلق، يُحلِّل القسمان الثاني والثالث الفُرَص والقيود القانونية والعملية المتعلّقة بإمكانية وصولهم/نّ إلى خدمات الحماية الاجتماعية، سواء بشكل خدمات المساعدة الاجتماعية (الحماية الاجتماعية من الفئة الأولى) و/أو كضمان اجتماعي يرتبط بالعمل النظامي (الحماية الاجتماعية من الفئة الثانية). أمّا القسم الرابع فيُلخِّص النتائج الرئيسية ويُقدِّم توصيات ترمي إلى تحسين الحماية الاجتماعية لصالح اللاجئين/ات السوريين/ات.  

Lebanon has witnessed a massive protest movement in 2019, commonly referred to as the “October Revolution”. The social movement denounced the Lebanese political and economic system, and demanded social justice. This paper investigates the political imaginaries of the protestors and proposes a discursive analysis that probes into their motives and positions. It further examines the various understandings and interpretations of social justice that underpinned the actions and visions of the social movement’s participants. The paper also aims to uncover the ideological assumptions as well as political limitations of the political imaginaries engendered by the “October Revolution”.

This article attempts to conceptualize the observations collected throughout an action-research process carried out between 2017 and 2019 to develop the Community Protection Approach (CPA). The CPA is both an approach and a methodology to streamline actions within ongoing humanitarian and development projects in support of the affected population (www.cpainitiative.org, 2019). This research draws widely on field evidence of the implementation of the CPA between 2013 and 2019, and analyzes the exchange and feedback processes between affected communities and implementers in a variety of locations.

The paper provides a contextualized and easily accessible history of Lebanese organized labor from the mandate period up to this day. The paper is divided into six main sections, each corresponding to a distinct phase of the historical development of Lebanese organized labor. In each section, the paper identifies the main actors, demands, events, urgencies and constraints shaping the articulation and the trajectories of (de/) mobilization of workers’ collective agency and organization, so as to provide a cumulative and genealogical overview of the changes, continuities and peculiarities characterizing each phase. The paper builds for the most part on the piecemeal and dis-organic body of scholarship currently constituting the bulk of scholarly knowledge on Lebanese labor, in an attempt to provide a synthesis and an index thereof. In so doing, the paper aims at offering a directory and a ready-to-hand compendium for researchers, analyst and practitioners interested in Lebanese labor, and possibly contribute to (re)ignite interest in this still widely under-researched topic.