Counter-Mapping and Migrant Infrastructures: Some Critical Reflections from the "Campscape" of Shatila, Beirut

This article questions the notions of refugee and migrant spaces’ formulations representations by considering complex elements which constitute camp Shatila, Lebanon, as articulated residents themselves. Counter-mapping methodology analytical lens serves to reveal, convey, decodify proliferating meaning-makings social, political, economic relations that uphold everyday life “camp,” determine shapes its spaces, signify materiality. A reticulated structure care emerges, described notion infrastructures, from emanates an invitation reconsider “informality” places such camps rather extremely developed forms being asserting presence.