Locating Palestinians at the Intersections: Indigeneity, Critical Refugee Studies, and Decolonization

Abstract

ABSTRACT This forum traces the specificity and complexity of the Palestinian refugee. In centering Palestinian subjectivity and the nature of settler colonial displacement, the authors illuminate the contributions of the Palestinian refugee experience to various fields, especially the field of critical refugee studies. As they respond to key concerns in the context of Palestine and its refugees, the contributors interrogate the power dynamics that work to determine refugee fate, situate ancestral knowledge and the revolutionary role of Palestinian women, challenge discursive trends that racialize Palestinians, and illuminate the land-based struggle and the actions and hopes of the Palestinian project of decolonization.