Palestinian Refugees

Challenges of Repatriation and Development

Rex Brynen, Roula El-Rifai

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9781845113117
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857715517
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

The Palestinian refugee issue remains a central component of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In this timely book, bringing together the most cutting-edge research from various disciplines, Rex Brynen and Roula El-Rifai explore the demographic and developmental challenges which the return of refugees to a future Palestinian state would generate. As well as outlining the social conditions of Palestinian refugee populations, the book addresses key practical questions, such as how the repatriation of refugees would affect the Palestinian economy and how the international community can effectively support the repatriation of refugees. In doing so, the authors examine and draw lessons from repatriation experiences in other parts of the world. The book provides a collection of world-class research and analysis into this complicated problem at a critical moment in the Arab-Israeli peace process, and should form the foundation of any informed policies on the subject.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Contributors
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Glossary
• 1. Introduction: Refugee repatriation, development, and the challenges of Palestinian state-building: Rex Brynen and Roula El-Rifai
• 2. Statistical data on Palestinian refugees: what we know and what we don't: Hasan Abu-Libdeh
• 3. Living in provisional normality: the living conditions of Palestinian refugees in the host countries of the Middle East: Jon Hanssen-Bauer and Laurie Blome Jacobsen
• 4. Social capital, transnational kinship and refugee repatriation process: some elements for a Palestinian sociology of return: Sari Hanafi
• 5. The return of the Palestinian refugees and displaced persons: the evolution of a European policy on the Middle East Peace Process: Mick Dumper
• 6. Refugees, repatriation, and development: some lessons from recent work: Rex Brynen
• 7. Planning in support of negotiations: the refugee issue: Khalil Nijem
• 8. Infrastructure scenarios for refugees and displaced persons: Nick Kfrafft and Ann Elwan
• 9. Land and housing strategies for immigrant absorption: lessons from the Israeli experience: Rachelle Alterman
• 10. Israeli settlements and the Palestinian refugee question: evaluating the prospects and implications of settlement evacuation in the West Bank and Gaza - a preliminary analysis: Geoffrey Aronson and Jan de Jong
• Notes
• Index