Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Space, Governance and Locality 1. Cartographic Violence, Displacement and Refugee Camps: Palestine and Iraq 2. Governing the Palestinian Refugees Camps in Lebanon and Syria: The Cases of Nahr El-Bared and Yarmouk Camps 3. Palestinian Camp Refugee Identifications: A New Look at the “Local” and the “National” Part II: Urbanisation, Place and Politics 4. Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon: Migration, Mobility and the Urbanization Process 5. Refugees Plan the Future of Al Fawwar: Piloting Strategic Camp Improvement in Palestine Refugee Camps 6. Nahr el-Bared: The Political Fall-out of a Refugee Disaster Part III: Civic Rights, Legal Status and Reparations 7. Passport for what Price? Statelessness Among Palestinian Refugees 8. Dynamics of Humanitarian Aid, Local and Regional Politics: The Palestine Refugees as a Case-Study 9. Reparations to Palestinian Refugees: The Politics of Saying ‘Sorry’ Part IV: Memory, Agency and Incorporation 10. ‘The One Still Surviving and Viable Institution’ 11. ‘A World of Movement’: Memory and Reality for Palestinian Women in the Camps of Lebanon 12. Politics, Patronage and Popular Committees in the Shatila Refugee Camp, Lebanon

About the Author

Are Knudsen is a Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway. He has published on Islamism among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, political Islam in Palestine and political violence in post-civil war Lebanon, and he is currently involved in research on conflict and co-existence in post-civil war Lebanon, Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and the democratic turn within Hamas. Sari Hanafi is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon. He has written extensively on economic sociology and network analysis of the Palestinian diaspora, relationships between diaspora and centre, political sociology and sociology of migration (mainly about the Palestinian refugees) and sociology of the new actors in international relations (non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and international NGOs).