Protection amid chaos : the creation of property rights in Palestinian refugee camps / Nadya Hajj.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hajj, Nadya, author.

Series:

Columbia studies in Middle East politics.

Columbia studies in Middle East politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugee property, Palestinian--Lebanon.

Refugee property, Palestinian.

Refugee property, Palestinian--Jordan.

Right of property--Lebanon.

Right of property.

Right of property--Jordan.

Refugee camps--Lebanon.

Refugee camps.

Refugee camps--Jordan.

Palestinian Arabs--Claims.

Palestinian Arabs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How do communities find protection in chaotic political economic settings? This book endeavors to show how normal people placed in extraordinarily difficult conditions created protections for their assets and buffered against outsider predation through property rights. The research project focuses on Palestinians living in seven refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Using interviews with 200 Palestinian refugees, legal title documents, memoirs, and United Nations Relief Works Agency archives the author traces the evolution of property rights from informal understandings of ownership to formal legal claims of assets and resources to shed light on how communities thrive in challenging political economic spaces. Initially, Palestinians deployed bits and pieces of their pre-refugee life to craft property rights that met the challenges of living in refugee camps. Later, as the camps increased in complexity with expanding markets and new outsiders entering the political fray, then Palestinians strategically melded their informal institutional practices with the formal rules of political outsiders. Palestinian refugees, to varying degrees of success, managed to protect their assets and community from predation and state incorporation.

Contents:

A theory of property rights formation in Palestinian refugee camps

Crafting informal property rights in Fawdah

Formal property rights in refugee camps in Jordan

Formal property rights in refugee camps in Lebanon

Renegotiating property rights in Nahr Al Bared camp.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231542920

0231542925

OCLC:

1023549774