Lebanon's Migrants and "Other" Refugees: A Needs Assessment (original) (raw)

While a focus on Syrian refugees often dominates western images of migration in Lebanon, it captures only part of the country's current context. Increasingly, migrants from Africa, Southern Asia, and the Pacific have fought to make themselves, their struggles and victories, more visible in governmental, humanitarian, activist, and academic circles focused on Lebanon's migratory reality. Domestic workers, African refugees, and transit migrations. The categories "migrant" and "migrant worker" in Lebanon often function as catchalls, referring primarily to migrants who are not