| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file PDF |
| Series |
Columbia studies in Middle East politics
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Columbia studies in Middle East politics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A theory of property right 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English and Arabic. |
| Subject |
Refugee property, Palestinian -- Lebanon.
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Refugee property, Palestinian. |
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Lebanon. |
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Refugee property, Palestinian -- Jordan.
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Jordan. |
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Right of property -- Lebanon.
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Right of property. |
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Right of property -- Jordan.
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Refugee camps -- Lebanon.
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Refugee camps. |
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Refugee camps -- Jordan.
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Palestinian Arabs -- Claims.
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Palestinian Arabs. |
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Claims. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Claims.
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Electronic book.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hajj, Nadya. Protection amid chaos. New York : Columbia University Press, 2017 9780231180627 (DLC) 2016015785 |
| ISBN |
9780231542920 (electronic book) |
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0231542925 (electronic book) |
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9780231180627 |
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0231180624 |
| Standard No. |
10.7312/hajj18062 |
| Music No. |
EB00690646 Recorded Books |
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