Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant (Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict)

By: Are Knudsen

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781136883330
Related ISBNs:: 9780203839256, 9781138788947, 9781138788947, 9780415580465, 9780415580465
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/09/20
Copyrighted By:: Editorial selection and matter Are Knudsen and Sari Hanafi
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Are Knudsen
Edited by:: Sari Hanafi