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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 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).
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Cristy Meadows
Location
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Lankester Lecture Theatre,Medawar BuildingUCL, Gower Street, LondonWC1E 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
Co-hosted by the Middle East Research Centre (MERC) and the Arts & Sciences Department at UCL.