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Palestinian musicians in Lebanon are called on to travel around in different social worlds. They are the prism through which the Author seeks to observe the kinds of balance that exist between their familiar anchorages and moments of passage to other places in the context of a professional activity. These balances vary, depending strongly on the temporalities of instability, and provide the conditions to be made of the camp where some of the musicians live to be defined as a living space and not as a “non place”. The different observations and an ethnography linking life stories to musical narratives indicate that what we are seeing is as much an appreciation of the challenges of otherness that the urban environment presents as a view of the way in which the musical experience helps build up a familiarity-based relationship with the living accommodation. The fact that the latter is often located in a camp gives us a way of observing how sentiments towards it become installed and how their ambivalence nevertheless allows the conclusion that a sense of urbanity of the margins develops.