...Agnes Czajka Focusing on th e particularly volatile period between the Israel-Hezbollah war (July–August 2006) and the prolonged struggle over Nahr al-Bared refugee camp (March–October 2007), this article outlines and historicizes the complex and altering landscape of discursive constructions...

...Meredith Terretta Abstract This article analyzes the way that political actors, advocate lawyers, and European administrators leveraged the designations political prisoner, political refugee, and prohibited immigrant to claim rights for inhabitants of the UN trust territories of French Cameroon...

... Transmigrants and Refugees: Jewish Migrants in New York and Berlin before and after the Great War Tobias Brinkmann n the eve of the Great Depression, Joseph Roth, one of the most famous German- language journalists of his time and a respected writer, penned an often-quoted...

...Debali Mookerjea-Leonard The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar New York: Columbia University Press, 2007 xvi + 288 pp., $50.00 (cloth), $27.50 (paper) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish...

... nteRfgeCmso Lebanon of Camps Refugee the in Commemoration Palestinian Mourning: and Memory of Places iyPes 91;Pte,“rnfrigTut Dispossession in Refugees,” Trust: Palestinian “Transforming among Empowerment Peteet, and 1991); Press, sity...

... and intangible—defined as World Cultural Heritage. This article looks at recent critical engagement with heritage, and with UNESCO's role in identifying heritage sites, by exploring Refugee Heritage , a recent project of DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency). 21. Edward Said and Joan Smith, “I find...

... . “The Right to Cultures: Cultural Communication, Media and Iranian Women Refugees in Germany and Canada,” Media Development 3 : 27 -33. ____. 1994 . “Conversations on Women's Rights Among Iranian Political Exiles: Implications for the Community-Self Debate in Feminism,” Critique (Spring): 1 -12...

...Heba Alnajada Abstract Historically, Islamic sharia courts across the Ottoman empire used a document called a hujja for registering property transactions. In present-day Jordan hujaj are illegal, yet in Palestinian refugee camps hujaj continue to be used for inheritance, buying and selling houses...

...Figure 2. Ifo Camp, Dadaab, Kenya, 2011. Refugees from Sudan and Somalia planning and designing a restaurant, building on a seed grant from the organization CARE. The restaurant was located at a neighborhood boundary in a block where Somali refugees lived, abutting a block where Sudanese refugees...

... and more categories of people inhabit camps than ever before, from refugees and migrants to the homeless and detainees, but the camp form today proliferates at the heart of urban space and across the global North/global South divide. Camps are no longer temporary sites of emergency management...

... homeless and underclass people, victims of honor crimes, disowned members of blood families, premature babies, and more recently, unaccompanied refugees. They also contain the bodies of political detainees who have been “disappeared” under police interrogation and state violence, along with radical...

... policy which can be partly explained by a distinctive factor: the commitment of the post–General Zia state (or part of it) to a militant version of Islam. Pakistan owes its being to Islam. In August, 1947, the eastern border of the new state was opened to the flow of Muslim refugees from India. Even...

... of capital.” She details Naim’s consumerism, his financial investments and property, and his land dispute with his brother, and then traces his experience of dispossession after the Nakba as a refugee in Lebanon. What happened to a man of capital who survived the catastrophe of 1948? What allows an archive...

... Sahrawi refugee camps and “returns” to Morocco, the ‘a'id has been associated with betrayal and opportunism since emerging as a subject position near the end of armed conflict in the late 1980s. As the significance of this subject position has changed, the article considers how the ‘a'id illustrates...

... changes that have facilitated the emergence of a distinct agenda of “Shariatization.” My findings are based on extensive interaction with Swatis, both in their homes and workplaces, over an extensive period. I have also interviewed many who have been residing in refugee camps after May 2009. I conclude...

... and theology, but a figure who emerges during people's self-reflection and through their interactions with others in specific settings. The articles explore how human engagements with the divine manifest across a myriad of post–Arab Spring communities, from Syrian Sunni refugees in Jordan to Shi'i Iranians who...