Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant

ISBN-13: 9781138788947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 234 str.

Are Knudsen; Sari Hanafi

Opis

More than four million Palestinian refugees live in protracted exile across the Middle East. Taking a regional approach to Palestinian refugee exile and alienation across the Levant, this book proposes a new understanding of the spatial and political dimensions of refugee camps across the Middle East. Combining critical scholarship with ethnographic insight, the essays uncover host states' marginalisation of stateless refugees and shed light on new terminology on refugees, migration and diaspora studies. The impact on the refugee community is detailed in novel studies of refugee identity, memory and practice and new legal approaches to compensation and right of return. The book opens a critical debate on key concepts and proposes a new understanding of the spatial and political dimensions of refugee camps, better understood as laboratories of Palestinian society and state-in-making. This strong collection of original essays is an essential resource for scholars and students in refugee studies, forced migration, disaster studies, legal anthropology, urban studies, international law and Middle East history.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Space, Governance and Locality  1. Cartographic Violence, Displacement and Refugee Camps: Palestine and Iraq  2. Governing the Palestinian Refugees Camps in Lebanon and Syria: The Cases of Nahr El-Bared and Yarmouk Camps  3. Palestinian Camp Refugee Identifications: A New Look at the “Local” and the “National”  Part II: Urbanisation, Place and Politics  4. Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon: Migration, Mobility and the Urbanization Process  5. Refugees Plan the Future of Al Fawwar: Piloting Strategic Camp Improvement in Palestine Refugee Camps  6. Nahr el-Bared: The Political Fall-out of a Refugee Disaster  Part III: Civic Rights, Legal Status and Reparations  7. Passport for what Price? Statelessness Among Palestinian Refugees  8. Dynamics of Humanitarian Aid, Local and Regional Politics: The Palestine Refugees as a Case-Study  9. Reparations to Palestinian Refugees: The Politics of Saying ‘Sorry’  Part IV: Memory, Agency and Incorporation  10. ‘The One Still Surviving and Viable Institution’  11. ‘A World of Movement’: Memory and Reality for Palestinian Women in the Camps of Lebanon  12. Politics, Patronage and Popular Committees in the Shatila Refugee Camp, Lebanon