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This article looks at the settlement of Syrians since 2012 in Hayy Gharbe, an urban fringe of Beirut. In the absence of legal recognition of their refugee status, I show that the irregular nature of this neighborhood creates a unique type of refuge space, in which access to local resources depends less on the exercise of rights than on sharing space with local residents. It is on the basis of the infrastructures that influence the redistribution of local resources, and the systems of social capitalization that they generate, that I analyze this process of refuge in a city without rights.