Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadya Hajj
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Institutional Innovation ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Community Living ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Political Landscapes ◽  
Political Economic

Property rights are not supposed to exist in Palestinian refugee camps. At least the existing scholarly record does not predict their presence. After all, why would a marginalized community living in uncertain political economic conditions go to all the trouble and effort of crafting institutions that lay claim to assets in a refugee camp? Yet a routine interview with a Palestinian refugee led to the discovery of formal legal titles inside refugee camps strewn across Lebanon and Jordan. The discovery triggered a new understanding of the potential for institutional innovation and evolution in transitional political landscapes, places that lack a stable sovereign state with the legal jurisdiction to define and enforce institutions....

A Theory of Property Rights Formation in Palestinian Refugee Camps

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadya Hajj
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Key Terms

Chapter 1 develops the central argument, defines key terms, specifies cases, and describes data sources. It provides a theory of property right formation in Palestinian refugee camps.

scholarly journals Palestinian Refugee Identity: Marginalization And Resistance In Refugee Camps In Lebanon

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Sabarini
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
A Site

Through a review of theoretical literature on the topics of space, power, and identity as well as literature on the Palestinian refugee situation in Lebanon, this research paper uses a critical approach to space in order to examine how Palestinian identity is formed within the specific context of refugee camps in Lebanon. The refugee camp has been used by the Lebanese state as a disciplinary tool to contain identities, but it has also served as a site for the displaced Palestinians to construct meaningful lives and create new places and identities. This paper will specifically examine the way in which a marginalized collective identity as well as an identity of resistance has been formed and renegotiated using culture, memory, and militancy by displaced Palestinian refugees living within the boundaries of camps in Lebanon.

Planned Emigration: The Palestinian Case

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-50
Author(s):  
Hassan Elnajjar
Keyword(s):  
Gaza Strip ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Major Conclusion ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Work Abroad

This article examines the UN policies encouraging emigration from the Palestinian refugee camps through educating Palestinians and sending them for work abroad. Data show that emigration is more related to certain types of employment, especially skilled labor and white-collar jobs, than to employment per se. The data were collected, through personal interviews, from Dair El Balah refugee camp in Gaza Strip in 1986. There are 291 observations representing individuals who are 19 years old or over. A major conclusion of this study is that the educational policies initiated and operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) contributed to the dispersion of about one third of the refugees in the 1960s and the 1970s.

Contextualizing the Palestinian Refugee Camps in the Gaza Strip

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Shadi Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
Special Case

Refugee camp spaces are widely analyzed against their host territories. They are constantly associated with isolation and time–space suspension. However, empirical studies show that camps are not simply islands unto themselves. They can have varying levels of interactions with their surroundings. This paper is concerned with contextualizing the Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip by examining four inseparable dimensions: spatial, socioeconomic, political and time. It unfolds the historical and contemporary interplay between camp and non-camp areas and shows the similarities and distinctions between them. The findings are based on the analysis and fieldwork of Jabalya refugee camp, the largest in the Gaza Strip. Ethnographic research tools are used in addition to text and historical aerial photo analysis. The paper concludes that in a context such as the Gaza Strip in which the majority of the population are refugees, there is a great deal of connectivity between camps and non-camp areas. The camps are far from being described as enclaves, bare lives, or state of exception. The distinctions between them and their surroundings are very subtle. To a large extent, the camps in the Gaza Strip represent a special case of connectivity to a level that has normalized the territory to become a large enclaved refugee space.

scholarly journals Palestinian Refugee Identity: Marginalization And Resistance In Refugee Camps In Lebanon

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Sabarini
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
A Site

Through a review of theoretical literature on the topics of space, power, and identity as well as literature on the Palestinian refugee situation in Lebanon, this research paper uses a critical approach to space in order to examine how Palestinian identity is formed within the specific context of refugee camps in Lebanon. The refugee camp has been used by the Lebanese state as a disciplinary tool to contain identities, but it has also served as a site for the displaced Palestinians to construct meaningful lives and create new places and identities. This paper will specifically examine the way in which a marginalized collective identity as well as an identity of resistance has been formed and renegotiated using culture, memory, and militancy by displaced Palestinian refugees living within the boundaries of camps in Lebanon.

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