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Abstract enDespite the sense of “otherness” between refugees and the host society has been a prerogative of the Palestinian exile, the intensity of this distancing process varies according to the country of exile.  This paper will study the consequences of the socio-political events and dispositions over Palestinian refugees from Syria fleeing the current civil war in order to find a sanctuary in the neighbouring Lebanon. The core of the work inquires how a previous experience of displacement serves as a social and cultural resource and questions the current Palestinian presence in the Middle East. Moving from these interrogatives, I tried to shed a light over the way the concept of “Palestine” seems to act as a catalyst for the individuals in determining how their own identity of “double refugees” is shifting nowadays. I argue that the current emigrations towards Europe constitute a pattern in redefining assumption concerning Palestinian refugees’ relations with national memory and collective spaces. Trying to connect refugees’ narratives around national identity and identity documents, I will show how the current international refugee legal system is structurally inappropriate to effectively deal with stateless persons who currently find themselves once more on the way.

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