... of camps, and towards an emphasis on internationally provided material aid in place, an approach that brought up the possibility of their reinstatement. It was in the absence of political action, then, that UNRWA produced the working definition that remains in operation today. A ‘Palestine refugee...

... ). Thus, rather than engaging with the normative question of what UNRWA should teach Palestine refugees, this article is concerned with the institutional dynamics that have informed UN curriculum choices for Palestinian refugees and the relevance of this case for other refugee populations. This article...

... organisations UNHCR League of Nations International Refugee Organization UNRWA UNRRA Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 10.13039/501100000155 895-2018-1003 435-2015-0711 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture SE1-272895 Recent years have seen a surge...

...Zeina Jamal; Mohamad Alameddine; Karin Diaconu; Graham Lough; Sophie Witter; Alastair Ager; Fouad M Fouad Participants, belonging to UNRWA’s healthcare cadre in Syria, were purposively sampled to secure representation from different departments, stations and roles. Participants comprised area...

.... First, this article shows that it was the Palestinian refugees themselves who drove early education in the camps and then continued to play an active role in shaping the UNRWA programme. Second, it contends that, while the refugees and UNRWA had conflicting motives when it came to camp education, both...

... are confronted by a paradox: forced inclusion because of having to learn the Lebanese curriculum, but exclusion because of simultaneously being pushed to the periphery of Lebanese society as a result of the Lebanon’s discriminatory laws and regulations. education for palestinian refugees UNRWA quality...

... to explore the role of definition in shaping both the UNRWA aid regime and the experience of being a Palestinian refugee. The impact of definition—and the definitions themselves—have not been uniform over time. To consider these qualifications and their impact, this article draws on administrative records...

...Ghassan Shabaneh This author's numerous field visits to schools in Jordan, the West Bank, and Syria reveal all these factors at work in UNRWA's educational programmes and demonstrate how schools have helped shape national identity. Field studies in Jordan showed that classroom interaction...

... standards of refugee law to the Palestinian case. While Palestinian refugees are unique in some respects, the relative decline of exceptionalism opens new doors to understanding refugee policy in a troubled region. Palestinian refugees Middle East UNRWA UNHCR refugee law article 1D In this article I...

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...This chapter examines the interplay between humanitarian/developmental concerns of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the political interests of the donors, host countries, and the refugees themselves. UNRWA has been tasked to provide...

...This chapter discusses the Palestinian uprooting, and the formation of the United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to depict the origins of the claim for a right of return for Palestinians, and then traces the evolution of the politics of the right of return...

... protection for two reasons. First, the historic context of the treaty leads to the conclusion that Article 1D is only applicable in the context of UNRWA protection or assistance to Palestinian refugees. Second, even when the historic context is disregarded, it is illogical to apply Article 1D in the context...

... is that in Bolbol v. Hivatal, ¹¹⁵ the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) adhered to this guidance by quoting directly from the Handbook that “UNRWA operates only in certain areas of the Middle East, and that it is only there that its protection or assistance...

... onward. Occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Gaza Arab League [LAS] United Nations [UN] United Nations General Assembly [UNGA] United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East [UNRWA] Jordan Lebanon Syrian Arab Republic Iraq Egypt Arab Peninsula Gulf Countries...

...This chapter discusses Dheisheh as a political and social space within the specific context of the Bethlehem area. The reader will here find some basic facts about the camp and its establishment by UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) in the early...

... condition. It looks at the specific challenges of the Palestinian refugee category—delineated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to determine eligibility for assistance, not to account for all who suffered losses in 1948. The chapter traces operational changes in the category over decades...

... crisis since 1948. In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, about 750,000 Palestinians either fled or were forced to flee from their homes in what would become the state of Israel. UNRWA was created by the UN General Assembly in 1949 to address the needs of the Palestinian refugees until a political solution...

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