Abbreviations AUB American University of Beirut CEP The Committee for Employment of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon CLDH Lebanese Centre for Human Rights (Centre Libanais des Droits Humains) CYC Children and Youth Centre DPAR The Department of Political Affairs and Refugees (DPAR) (“Mudiriyya al‐Shshuun al‐Siyasiyya wa‐llajiin”) DRC Danish Refugee Council GAPAR General Administration for Palestinian Arab Refugees HRW Human Rights Watch ICG International Crisis Group ILO International Labour Organization ISF Internal Security Forces LAF Lebanese Armed forced NGO Non Governmental Organization NRC Norwegian Refugee Council NSSF The National Social Security Fund PFLP‐GC The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command PHRO Palestinian Human Rights Organization PLO Palestine Liberation Organization PRL Palestinian Refugees from Lebanon PRS Palestinian Refugees from Syria SOAM Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, American University of Beirut UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 4