Pub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.1525/9780520971288-001
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Pub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.1525/9780520971288-008
{"title":"Chapter 5. The Politics of Living as a Refugee","authors":"","doi":"10.1525/9780520971288-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520971288-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":422310,"journal":{"name":"Life Lived in Relief","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123411838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299627.003.0008
Ilana Feldman
The final chapter underscores the fact that Palestinians share with millions of displaced persons across the globe the challenges of life lived in, against, and sometimes without relief. The persistent conceptual problem of exceptionalism has led some to view the Palestinian story of long-term displacement as incomparable with other refugee settings. In fact, the Palestinian refugee instance is not just comparable but also paradigmatic. Considering the recent global migrant crisis and the mass displacement of Syrians, the chapter argues that the refugee condition is not just returning but also persisting. Refugees are not external to global political orders, but central to them. Palestinians have considerable experience in making the refugee condition “world-forming.” Their experience sheds light on the forms of political life that are possible, even in precarious conditions.
{"title":"Making Livable Lives in Worlds in Crisis","authors":"Ilana Feldman","doi":"10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299627.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299627.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"The final chapter underscores the fact that Palestinians share with millions of displaced persons across the globe the challenges of life lived in, against, and sometimes without relief. The persistent conceptual problem of exceptionalism has led some to view the Palestinian story of long-term displacement as incomparable with other refugee settings. In fact, the Palestinian refugee instance is not just comparable but also paradigmatic. Considering the recent global migrant crisis and the mass displacement of Syrians, the chapter argues that the refugee condition is not just returning but also persisting. Refugees are not external to global political orders, but central to them. Palestinians have considerable experience in making the refugee condition “world-forming.” Their experience sheds light on the forms of political life that are possible, even in precarious conditions.","PeriodicalId":422310,"journal":{"name":"Life Lived in Relief","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123333648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299627.003.0002
Ilana Feldman
This chapter explores the definition, history, and experience of the refugee category. It considers the apparently paradoxical fact that a category that is not meant to provide political status—that is intended rather to hold politics in abeyance—is a starting point for politics in the humanitarian condition. It looks at the specific challenges of the Palestinian refugee category—delineated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to determine eligibility for assistance, not to account for all who suffered losses in 1948. The chapter traces operational changes in the category over decades. It also considers how Palestinians, of multiple generations, have lived with and sometimes against the category. It describes tensions about the political meaning of refugee status.
{"title":"No Exit","authors":"Ilana Feldman","doi":"10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299627.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299627.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the definition, history, and experience of the refugee category. It considers the apparently paradoxical fact that a category that is not meant to provide political status—that is intended rather to hold politics in abeyance—is a starting point for politics in the humanitarian condition. It looks at the specific challenges of the Palestinian refugee category—delineated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to determine eligibility for assistance, not to account for all who suffered losses in 1948. The chapter traces operational changes in the category over decades. It also considers how Palestinians, of multiple generations, have lived with and sometimes against the category. It describes tensions about the political meaning of refugee status.","PeriodicalId":422310,"journal":{"name":"Life Lived in Relief","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130074446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299627.003.0005
Ilana Feldman
This chapter explores the variety of ways that Palestinian refugees have engaged in politics in and through humanitarianism. Refugees have made claims or rights to humanitarianism and for humanitarian rights. They have insisted that relief is not a matter of compassion, but an international obligation. They have argued that humanitarian rights are not just about survival but may also include recognition as political subjects. Palestinians have also engaged a politics of living precisely by surviving, not just as individuals, but also as a community. The chapter explores struggles over endurance and its meaning. It also considers contests over political values among Palestinians, looking especially at concepts like steadfastness (sumud) and arguments over normalization (tatbi‘) and resettlement (tawtin).
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Pub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299627.003.0007
Ilana Feldman
This chapter looks at how, in different moments, facing different challenges, Palestinians have engaged and worked toward non-humanitarian futures. These engagements are another dimension of the politics of living in humanitarianism. And like all such politics, they both make creative use of humanitarian tools and encounter the limits of this framework. The chapter focuses on two instances. The first is the revolutionary humanitarianism of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), specifically the Palestine Red Crescent Society and Samed, the Palestine Martyr’s Society, which focused on development. These institutions argued that humanitarianism could support national politics. The second is an experimental project called Campus in Camps in Dheisheh camp. Campus in Camps works at the intersection of aspiration and refusal, trying to reinvigorate the camp as a site of political invention.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-30DOI: 10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520299627.003.0001
Ilana Feldman
This chapter provides an introduction to the history and central concepts of the book. It highlights the conceptual challenge that long-existing refugee camps pose for common understandings of camps and humanitarianism. It describes the beginnings of United Nations’ relief to displaced Palestinians. Considering the dilemmas of long-term humanitarianism, it introduces the term “punctuated humanitarianism” to capture the movement between emergency circumstances (the humanitarian situation) and extended, chronic need (the humanitarian condition). The chapter also explores Palestinian refugee politics in these conditions, identifying a discordant politics that has multiple, sometimes contradictory registers and aims. Refugee politics has been a politics of suffering, of aspiration, of existence, and of refusal.
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