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Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp By Maya Rosenfeld Publisher: Stanford Univ. Press (March 2004), 392 pages Confronting the Occupation is a study of work, education, political-national resistance, family, and community relations in a Palestinian refugee camp under conditions of Israeli military occupation. It is based on extended field research carried out by an Israeli sociologist-anthropologist in Dheisheh camp, south of Bethlehem, between 1992 and 1996. Emphasis is placed on how men and women, families, and the local refugee community confront the occupation regime as they seek livelihoods, invest in the education of younger generations, and mount a political and often militant struggle. Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 By Nur Masalha Publisher: Institute for Palestine Studies (May 1, 1992), 236 pages In this meticulous work, based almost entirely on Hebrew archival material, Nur Masalha examines the Zionist concept of "transfer," or the expulsion of the Palestinian population to neighboring Arab lands. Masalha establishes the extent to which "transfer" was embraced by the highest levels of Zionist leadership, including virtually all the Founding Fathers of the Israeli state. In Hope and Despair: Life in the Palestinian Refugee Camps By Mia Grondahl (Photographer), Hanan Ashrawi, Peter Hansen (Introduction) Publisher: Amer. Univ. in Cairo Pr. (October 2003), 128 pages Opening with archival photos from the early Palestinian exile, In Hope and Despair chronicles the lives of Palestinians living in refugee camps throughout the occupied territories and the surrounding countries. These photos capture life in all its moments -- weddings, doctor's visits, good times and bad. Palestinian Refugees: Old Problems-New Solutions By J. Ginat (Editor), Edward J. Perkins (Editor) Publisher: Univ. of Oklahoma Press (Febuary 2002), 368 pages Based on a 1999 conference at the University of Oklahoma International Program Center, Palestinian Refugees combines contributions from Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians, Egyptians, Americans, and Europeans. In addition to focusing on the Palestinian refugees, the essays present various proposals for solving the Palestinian problem. Palestinian Refugees: Pawns to Political Actors By Ghada Hashem Talhami Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (March 2003), 227 pages Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return By Naseer Hasan Aruri (Editor) Publisher: Pluto Press (September 1, 2001), 256 pages With major contributions from a range of international experts, including Edward W. Said, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappe and Alain Grosh, this volume examines the Palestinians' right of return. Chapters cover the historical roots of the Palestinian refugee question; the rights of the refugees under international law; the special case of Lebanon; Israeli perceptions of the refugee question; the practical feasibility of the return; the role of the United States and the European Community and the Refugee Question; the value of the refugee property; the principles of compensation; and a program for an Independent Rights Campaign. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem By Nur Masalha. Publisher: Pluto Press (January 2004), 298 pages The aim of this book is to analyze Israeli policies towards the Palestinian refugees as they evolved from the 1948 catastrophe (or nakba) to the present. It is the first volume to look in detail at Israeli law and policy surrounding the refugee question. Drawing on extensive primary sources and previously classified archive material, Masalha discusses the 1948 exodus; Israeli resettlement schemes since 1948; Israeli approaches to compensation and restitution of property; Israeli refugee policies towards the internally displaced ('present absentees'); and Israeli refugee policies during the Madrid and Oslo negotiations. Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (The Institute for Palestine Studies Series) By Michael R. Fischbach Publisher: Columbia University Press (December 2003), 520 pages The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine was established in 1948 "to provide protection and facilitate durable solutions for Palestinian refugees displaced in 1948." While now largely dormant, in the 1960s, the commission compiled a property database that contains some 453,000 records documenting around 1.5 million individual property holdings. A professor of history at Virginia's Randolph-Macon College, Fischbach, who worked on digitizing the archive, here presents a closely argued summation of what he found there. The book will undoubtedly figure in discussions of the Palestinians' "right of return." (From Publishers Weekly Refugees in Our Own Land : Chronicles from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Bethlehem By Muna Hamzeh. Publisher: Pluto Press (September 2001), 160 pages This remarkable book is a gripping eyewitness account of what it is like to live in Palestine as a refugee in your own homeland. Born in Jerusalem, Muna Hamzeh is a journalist who has been writing about Palestinian affairs since 1985. She first worked as a journalist in Washington DC, but moved back to Palestine in 1989 to cover the first Palestine Intifada -- the war of stones. She then settled in Dheisheh, near Bethlehem, one of 59 Palestinian refugee camps that are considered the oldest refugee camps in the world. Reinterpreting the Historical Records: The Uses of Palestinian Refugee Archives for Social Science Research and Policy Analysis By Salim Tamari, Elia Zureik Publisher: Institute for Palestine Studies (June 2001), 182 pages This volume contains the first attempt to systematically analyze the contents of all the major and publicly available archival records pertaining to Palestinian refugees and to social science research and policy analysis. Collectively, these records cover the formative years of refugee registration (1948-1950); the administrative and family files of UNRWA; the computerized individual and family databases of UNRWA; and the property and map locational databases of Palestinian refugee property inside Israel. The seven chapters of the book, written by experts in their fields, deal with the uses of limitations of these records and with their relevance and utility to the ongoing negotiations on refugee repatriation, rehabilitation, restitution, and compensation. The UN and the Palestinian refugees; a study in nonterritorial administration By Edward H. Buehrig Publisher: Indiana University Press (1971), 215 pages ©2000-2007 electronicIntifada.net unless otherwise noted. Content may represent personal view of author. This page was printed from the Electronic Intifada website at electronicIntifada.net. You may freely e-mail, print out, copy, and redistribute this page for informational purposes on a non-commercial basis. To republish content credited to the Electronic Intifada in online or print publications, please get in touch via electronicIntifada.net/contact |