Protection amid chaos : the creation of property rights in Palestinian refugee camps / Nadya Hajj.
2017
KMK2695.P35 H35 2017 (Mapit)
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Protection amid chaos : the creation of property rights in Palestinian refugee camps / Nadya Hajj.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017.
Description
xiv, 214 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Series
Columbia studies in Middle East politics.
Formatted Contents Note
A theory of property rights formation in Palestinian refugee camps
Crafting informal property rights in Fawdah
Formal property rights in refugee camps in Jordan
Formal property rights in refugee camps in Lebanon
Renegotiating property rights in Nahr al-Bared camp
Conclusion
Appendix A. Titles from NBC and Beddawi in Arabic with English translations
Appendix B. Research methods.
Crafting informal property rights in Fawdah
Formal property rights in refugee camps in Jordan
Formal property rights in refugee camps in Lebanon
Renegotiating property rights in Nahr al-Bared camp
Conclusion
Appendix A. Titles from NBC and Beddawi in Arabic with English translations
Appendix B. Research methods.
Summary
"How do communities find protection in chaotic political economic settings? This book endeavors to show how normal people placed in extraordinarily difficult conditions created protections for their assets and buffered against outsider predation through property rights. The research project focuses on Palestinians living in seven refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Using interviews with 200 Palestinian refugees, legal title documents, memoirs, and United Nations Relief Works Agency archives the author traces the evolution of property rights from informal understandings of ownership to formal legal claims of assets and resources to shed light on how communities thrive in challenging political economic spaces. Initially, Palestinians deployed bits and pieces of their pre-refugee life to craft property rights that met the challenges of living in refugee camps. Later, as the camps increased in complexity with expanding markets and new outsiders entering the political fray, then Palestinians strategically melded their informal institutional practices with the formal rules of political outsiders. Palestinian refugees, to varying degrees of success, managed to protect their assets and community from predation and state incorporation"--Publisher's website.
Language Note
In English and Arabic.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index.
Location
STA
Available in Other Form
Online version: Hajj, Nadya, author Protection amid chaos New York : Columbia University Press, 2017
Call Number
KMK2695.P35 H35 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9780231180627 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0231180624 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9780231542920 (e-book)
0231180624 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9780231542920 (e-book)
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