Palestinian Refugees : Identity, Space and Place in the Levant.

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 Eas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knudsen, Are J.
Other Authors: Hanafi, Sari
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Space, governance and locality; 1 Cartographic violence, displacement and refugee camps: Palestine and Iraq; 2 Governing the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria: The cases of Nahr el- Bared and Yarmouk camps; 3 Palestinian camp refugee identifications: A new look at the 'local' and the 'national'; Part II: Urbanisation, place and politics; 4 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon: Migration, mobility and the urbanization process.