| Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant Contributor(s): Knudsen, Are (Editor), Hanafi, Sari (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415580463 ISBN-13: 9780415580465 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Middle East - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 305.892 |
| LCCN: 2010019676 |
| Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict |
| Physical Information: 244 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |