When Wounds Travel Recent work in anthropology has highlighted the intimate relationships between humanitarian regimes of trauma recognition and the production of conditions of modern-day victimhood. In the context of humanitarianism, diagnostics and therapeutics of trauma have become “signatures” of the “scarring” effects of past violence, and in turn a framework in the governing and management of populations and bodies in contexts of crisis. From immigration practices, to defining and selecting refugees for asylum and resettlement, to therapeutics offered to torture victims, trauma discourses has been operationalized as a regime of power where populations and individuals participate in making their own experiences and witnessing of violence both visible and available to a humanitarian ethic of victimhood. In this paper, I would like to think about trauma “beyond” the humanitarian discourses and practices of governance and medicalization. Rather than focusing on the nexus of humanitarian interventions, I want to account for trauma as a form of “social wound,” entrenched in the intersections of local histories and social experiences of violence. Building on ethnographic accounts of displacement of Iraqis in Lebanon, I ask: what happens when such wounds travel and how do they metabolize across different social worlds and histories of violence? In highlighting social tensions and imbrications of histories of such social worlds, I hope to show how an ethnography of “wounds” could account for the complex ways histories of violence and discourses of trauma unravel in everyday life.