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<p>The fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 has forced Palestinian refugees from Syria (PRS) in Lebanon to reassess the possibility of return. Unlike other displaced populations, PRS navigate a complex web of statelessness, historical exile, and repeated intergenerational displacement that renders return not just a political question but an existential calculus. Weighing the prospects of return to Syria against remaining in Lebanon, PRS must consider the risks of legal ambiguity, economic instability, and political uncertainty in post-Assad Syria while also recognizing the constraints of Lebanon’s restrictive refugee policies and fragile humanitarian infrastructure. This paper examines the decision-making process of PRS regarding return, analyzing how their access to aid, legal status, and exhaustion from perpetual displacement shape their calculations. Drawing on interviews and testimonies, the study argues that PRS are not merely passive recipients of external circumstances but active agents making strategic, if deeply constrained, choices. Ultimately, their predicament highlights what this paper theorizes as a politics of stuckness: a strategic engagement with immobility by stateless refugees navigating repeated displacement and legal erasure. For PRS, return is not an endpoint but another uncertain juncture in a broader struggle for survival, continuity, and belonging.</p>

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Refuge, Return, Repeat: A Perpetual Calculus for Palestinian Refugees from Syria Post-Assad

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    2025年8月21日

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  • Jasmin Lilian Diab,
  • Yara El-Zakka

摘要

The fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 has forced Palestinian refugees from Syria (PRS) in Lebanon to reassess the possibility of return. Unlike other displaced populations, PRS navigate a complex web of statelessness, historical exile, and repeated intergenerational displacement that renders return not just a political question but an existential calculus. Weighing the prospects of return to Syria against remaining in Lebanon, PRS must consider the risks of legal ambiguity, economic instability, and political uncertainty in post-Assad Syria while also recognizing the constraints of Lebanon’s restrictive refugee policies and fragile humanitarian infrastructure. This paper examines the decision-making process of PRS regarding return, analyzing how their access to aid, legal status, and exhaustion from perpetual displacement shape their calculations. Drawing on interviews and testimonies, the study argues that PRS are not merely passive recipients of external circumstances but active agents making strategic, if deeply constrained, choices. Ultimately, their predicament highlights what this paper theorizes as a politics of stuckness: a strategic engagement with immobility by stateless refugees navigating repeated displacement and legal erasure. For PRS, return is not an endpoint but another uncertain juncture in a broader struggle for survival, continuity, and belonging.