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Refuge and resistance : Palestinians and the international refugee system / Anne Irfan.
Penn Museum Library HV640.5.P36 I743 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irfan, Anne, author.
- Series:
- Columbia studies in international and global history
- Columbia Studies in International and Global History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights advocacy--Political aspects--Arab countries--History.
- Human rights advocacy.
- Stateless persons--Civil rights--Arab countries.
- Stateless persons.
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Legal status, laws, etc--Arab countries.
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
- Refugee camps--Arab countries.
- Refugee camps.
- Palestinian Arabs--Services for--Middle East.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Services for--Middle East.
- Palestinian Arabs--Services for.
- Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Legal status, laws, etc.
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East--History.
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
- Arab countries.
- Middle East.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "In the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regime that became central to the lives of refugees around the world. This regime operated most acutely for Palestinian refugees, who were served by a specialized UN body: the Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Refuge and Resistance examines UNRWA's exchanges and interactions with Palestinian refugee communities, particularly in the camps where it functioned as a surrogate state. Grounded in empirical research-including previously unseen documents from UNRWA's own archive-this book shows how Palestinian refugees regularly invoked internationalist norms to demand their political rights, while resisting the UN's apolitical categorization of their plight as a humanitarian issue. This book thus re-conceptualizes the Palestinian refugee camps as internationalized spaces, and recasts the refugee communities as important historical actors in global politics. Providing the first international history of the Palestinian refugee camps, Refuge and Resistance offers a vital new perspective for understanding politics beyond the nation-state, in a region that remains central to international politics"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- PART 1. REMAKING REFUGEEHOOD. Becoming Refugees
- From Refuge to Revolution
- An International Regime
- PART 2. RESISTING THE REGIME. Palestinian Perceptions
- Agents of the Nation
- Palestine at the UN
- Epilogue: Resistance After Revolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Irfan, Anne. Refuge and resistance
- ISBN:
- 9780231202848
- 0231202849
- 9780231202855
- 0231202857
- OCLC:
- 1346350922
- Publisher Number:
- 99993906442
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