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Book Launch: Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the international refugee system
08 June 2023, 4:00 pm–7:30 pm
This event will launch Dr Anne Irfan's new book Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the international refugee system, out now with Columbia University Press. Co-hosted by the Middle East Research Centre (MERC) and the Arts & Sciences Department at UCL.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Cristy Meadows
Location
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Lankester Lecture Theatre, Medawar BuildingUCLGower StreetLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
This event will launch Dr Anne Irfan's new book Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the international refugee system (Columbia University Press). The book traces Palestinian refugee history since the dispossession of 1948, focusing on how refugee camp communities have engaged with international politics via the UN and its Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). It shows how Palestinian refugees invoked international norms to demand their political rights while resisting the UN's categorisation of their plight as an apolitical humanitarian issue. In so doing, it demonstrates that refugee communities are important actors in global politics, not merely aid recipients.
Twitter: @anne_irfan
About the Speaker
Dr Anne Irfan
Lecturer in Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at UCL at Arts and Sciences at UCL
Dr Anne Irfan is Lecturer in Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at UCL's Arts & Sciences Department, also affiliated with the Middle East Research Centre. She is a historian of the modern Middle East whose work examines colonial legacies in displacement and bordering practices. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Refugee Studies, Journal of Palestine Studies, Forced Migration Review and Contemporary Levant, among others. She has also appeared on Al Jazeera English, and has addressed the UK Parliament and the UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva on UNRWA and Palestinian refugee issues.
Twitter: @anne_irfan