Dis/Solving the "Refugee Problem"

Middle East Report

Volumn , Issue 207, 1998, Pages 19-23

  Sayigh, Rosemary ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RIGHTS; NATIONALISM; REFUGEES;

ISRAEL, PALESTINE;

EID: 0031719863     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3013162     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Figures of refugees/displaced are for 1990-91, and come from Elia Zureik, "Palestine Refugees and Peace," Journal of Palestine Studies 24/1, 1994, Table 2. Overall population figures are based on George Kossaifi, "The Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return," 1996, unpublished paper, p. 9. Of Palestinians outside, 3,172,641 are registered with UNRWA, 32 percent of whom live in camps.
2. Figures of refugees/displaced are for 1990-91, and come from Elia Zureik, "Palestine Refugees and Peace," Journal of Palestine Studies 24/1, 1994, Table 2. Overall population figures are based on George Kossaifi, "The Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return," 1996, unpublished paper, p. 9. Of Palestinians outside, 3,172,641 are registered with UNRWA, 32 percent of whom live in camps.
3. Kossaifi, "The Palestinian People," op. cit., p. 13.
4. Marianne Heiberg, Geir Ovensen, et al., Palestinian Society in Gaza, West Bank and Arab Jerusalem (Oslo: Falch, 1993).
5. Ibid., Figure 6.4, p. 161.
6. Leila Zakharia and Samia Tabari, "Palestinian Women in Lebanon: Health, Work Opportunities and Attitudes," paper prepared for the "Palestinians in Lebanon" conference, Center for Lebanese Studies/Refugee Studies Programme, Oxford, September 1996.
7. Two recent instances: the sentencing in Britain (December 1996) of two young Palestinians found in possession of materials for making explosives to 20 years imprisonment (to be followed by deportation); and the extradition from Norway (also in 1996) of a woman citizen of Palestinian origin to Germany to be tried for a "crime" for which she had already served a prison sentence.
8. Liisa Malkki, "Citizens of Humanity: Internationalism and the Imagined Community of Nations," Diaspora 3/1, 1994.
9. See Elia Zureik, Palestinian Refugees and the Peace Process (Washington: Institute of Palestine Studies, 1996) on exclusions, including around 150,000 11995) refugees in Israel (p 9).
10. See, for example, the Norwegian Institute of Applied Social Sciences (FAFO), Harvard University, the Rand Corporation, the Council on Foreign Relations (NY), the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (California), McGill University, the Refugee Studies Programme (Oxford), Chatham House (London), Warwick University, the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv), and CERMOC and CEDEJ (France).
11. UNRWA figures, Norma Hazboun, Israeli Resettlement Schemes for Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip "Al-Shaml Monograph Series 4 (1996), p. 32. On the Bedouin, see Penny Maddrell, The Bedouin of the Negev (London, 1990).
12. UNRWA figures, Norma Hazboun, Israeli Resettlement Schemes for Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip "Al-Shaml Monograph Series 4 (1996), p. 32. On the Bedouin, see Penny Maddrell, The Bedouin of the Negev (London, 1990).
13. Bassem Sarhan, "Mahnat al-Jariya al-Filastiniyyah fi Libya: Aman min al-Azab wa al-Inqab," Majallat ad-Dirasat al-Filastiniyyah, January 1997. Lebanese refugee card carriers must obtain permits to leave the country, as well as reentry visas which must be renewed within six months.
14. Near and Middle East Information Project (Germany), July 5, 1997.
15. Badil press release, Bethlehem, March 2, 1998.
16. Badil press release, Bethlehem, December 1, 1997.
17. Reported in Ha'aretz and The Jerusalem Post, April 6, 1998.
18. Paul Cossali and Clive Robson, Stateless in Gaza (London: Zed Books, 1986).
19. Badil press release, Bethlehem, January 7, 1998.
20. Badil press release, Bethlehem, March 20, 1998.
21. From "Palestine Report," FOFOGNET, Montreal, March 4, 1998.
22. From the series "The Story Crisis in Palestine," interviews by Toine Van Teeffelen, The Jerusalem Times, 24 (October 1997) no. 194.
23. FOFOGNET, Montreal, January 16, 1998.
24. For Palestinian positions, see Rashid Khalidi, "Observations on the Right of Return," Journal of Palestine Studies 21/2, 1992; and Salim Tamari, Return, Resettlement, Repatriation: The Future of Palestinian Refugees in the Peace Negotiations (Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 1996).
25. For Palestinian positions, see Rashid Khalidi, "Observations on the Right of Return," Journal of Palestine Studies 21/2, 1992; and Salim Tamari, Return, Resettlement, Repatriation: The Future of Palestinian Refugees in the Peace Negotiations (Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 1996).
26. Hazboun. "Israeli Resettlement Schemes," op. cit., p. 38-39.
27. Kossaifi, op. cit., p. 13.
28. Hazboun, op. cit., pp. 140, 232.
29. Hazboun, op. cit., p. 141.
30. Kossaifi, op. cit., p. 13.
31. Hana Jaber, "Le camp de Wihdat entre norme et transgression," Revue d'etudes palestiniennes 81 (1996).