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173128
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The discourse on migration and refugee studies continues to be framed around two main principles: sovereignty and identity. In contemporary politics, however, the refugee subject is defined and managed from a universal framework where the language of rights elevates the potency of liberalism as both a discourse and an instrument of domination. This article examines refugeehood from a framework that transcends the sovereignty/identity dichotomy. It offers a more nuanced contextual approach through which this mass socio-political phenomenon can be better understood. To validate the article's new methodology, it sets out to examine the Palestinian refugee question, the oldest unresolved refugee problem in the history of the modern Middle East. The article makes visible the performative role of question framing by giving particular attention to historical transfigurations in the conceptualization of the people's right to self-determination. As a discourse-based analysis, the article demonstrates how current discursive formations produce colonial knowledge that can facilitate the development of new social and political tools of population control. The article concludes by showing how conceptual transfiguration of the right to self-determination incited the orientalist scholarship on the Palestinian refugee question in the interest of legitimizing and normalizing Israel as a Western colonial establishment.
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154047
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This article compares Palestinian refugees and exiles’ written accounts of their visits to their places of origin in present-day Israel. The discussion is based on texts published by educated, upper-middle-class Palestinians living in the diaspora or in the West Bank, who made their visits as private citizens. After surveying the existing literature on refugee visits their homes in other post-conflict zones, the article discusses an aspect of Palestinian visits that previous studies have left untouched: the encounter between visitors and present occupants.
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051176
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London, Pluto Press, 2001.
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x, 166p.hbk
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0745316522
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 048225 | 956.953/HAM 048225 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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174256
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How are refugees responding to protect themselves and others in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic? How do these responses relate to diverse local, national, and international structures of inequality and marginalization? Drawing on the case of Beddawi camp in North Lebanon, I argue that local responses—such as sharing information via print and social media, raising funds for and preparing iftar baskets during Ramadan, and distributing food and sanitation products to help people practice social distancing—demonstrate how camp residents have worked individually and collectively to find ways to care for Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi, Kurdish, and Lebanese residents alike, thereby transcending a focus on nationality-based identity markers. However, state, municipal, international, and media reports pointing to Syrian refugees as having imported the virus into Beddawi camp place such local modes of solidarity and mutuality at risk. This article thus highlights the importance of considering how refugee-refugee assistance initiatives relate simultaneously to: the politics of the self and the other, politically produced precarity, and multi-scalar systems that undermine the potential for solidarity in times of overlapping
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