Hajj, Nadya – Protection Amid Chaos The Creation of Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps – Columbia University Press (2016)
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Name: Hajj, Nadya – Protection Amid Chaos The Creation of Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps – Columbia University Press (2016)
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Title: Protection Amid Chaos
Author: Nadya Hajj
Language: English
Year: 2017
Subjects: POL035010, Political Science/Political Freedom & Security/Human Rights, HIS026000, History/Middle East/General
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9781621061601
Total pages: N/A
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The right to own property is something we generally take for granted. For refugees living in camps, in some cases for as long as generations, the link between citizenship and property ownership becomes strained. How do refugees protect these assets and preserve communal ties? How do they maintain a sense of identity and belonging within chaotic settings?
Protection Amid Chaos follows people as they develop binding claims on assets and resources in challenging political and economic spaces. Focusing on Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, it shows how the first to arrive developed flexible though legitimate property rights claims based on legal knowledge retained from their homeland, subsequently adapted to the restrictions of refugee life. As camps increased in complexity, refugees merged their informal institutions with the formal rules of political outsiders, devising a broader, stronger system for protecting their assets and culture from…
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