Al-Hroub, Anies. "Perspectives of School Dropouts’ Dilemma in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon: An Ethnographic Study." International Journal of Educational Development 35 (2014): 53-66. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: school, education, dropouts, Palestinian, refugee, camps, Lebanon, ethnography, UNRWA, child labor
This article explores the perspectives of students, administrators, teachers and parents on the UNRWA school dropouts in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. The study relies on field data constituting one on one interviews with 11 dropout students and FGD with students, parents, teachers, and school administrators. The results find that a range of factors, including socioeconomic conditions, race, gender, ethnicity, and family status all are contributing factors to the decision of dropping out.
Allan, Diana. “Mythologising Al-Nakba: Narratives, Collective Identity and Cultural Practice among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon.” Oral History Society 33.1(2005): 47-56. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: al nakba, identity, culture, Palestinian, refugees, Lebanon, national, history, personal, memory
This article is concerned with the 1948 narratives in Palestinian history in the production of national belonging in Shateela camp, Lebanon. The article suggests that cultural transmission depends less on oral performance and commemorative practices memorializing 1948 than on fragmentary moments that make up the idiomatic fabric of everyday life. New communication technologies are altering the form and content of historical discourse, with the processes of transmission becoming less narrative+based, more visual and increasingly individuated.
Brynen, Rex. “Imagining a Solution: Final Status Arrangements and Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon.” Journal of Palestine Studies 26.2 (1997): 42-58. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: Palestinian, refugees, Lebanon,
This article is concerned with possible framework for the Palestinian-Israeli final status arrangements surrounding the issue of Palestinian refugees and assesses the implications of it for Lebanon and the Palestinian refugee population residing there.
Fincham, Kathleen. "Learning the Nation in Exile: Constructing Youth Identities, Belonging and "Citizenship" in Palestinian Refugee Camps in South Lebanon." Comparative Education 48.1 (2012): 119-33. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: identities, belonging, citizenship, nation, exile, Palestinian, refugee camp, Lebanon, South, youth
This paper examines the way in which 'Palestinianss' and 'Palestinian' are culturally, socially and symbolically produced and regulated through formal and non-formal institutional sites in Palestinian camps in South Lebanon. The paper argues that while institutional power, processes and outcomes help in constructing shared notions of 'Palestinianss,' they also create contestations and internal 'others'.
Hanafi, Sari. "Employment of Palestinian Refugee Women in Lebanon: Opportunities and Hurdles." Refugee Survey Quarterly 33.4 (2014): 31. Link to Article
Keyword: Palestinian, refugees, women, Lebanon, employment
Given Palestinians' inability to participate in Lebanon's labor market, this paper examines the implications of such exclusion on the employment statues of Palestinian women. More specifically, it focuses on the undergraduate women who receive the Scholarship Fund for Palestinian Refugee Women in Lebanon, a multi-donor intuitive managed by the International Development Research Centre in Canada and UNRWA in Lebanon. The methodology for this paper consists of interviews of the 201 women who received the scholarship. The study found that the better education for the Palestinian women, the more likely they are to be employed;Lebanon's policies did not completely bar women from participating in the labor market as some took the form of low-paid segments of the economy and working in the black labor markets; and finally, the exclusion policies deterred new generations from pursuing higher education.
Knudsen, Are. "Islamism in the Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon." Journal of Refugee Studies 18.2 (2005): 216-234. Link to Article
Keyword: Islamism, diaspora, Palestinian, refugees, Lebanon
With the increasingly popularity of academic interests in Islamism in the Middle East, this article outlines the sources of political Islam among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Based on interviews with representative of Palestinian NGOs, the refugee bureaucracy, political parties and Islamist groups as well as specialist on Lebanese Islamism, the author argues that Islamist groups cater for small segments of the camp-based refugee community that compete with secular groups for internal control of the camp, and by implications, the Palestinian nationalist cause.
Knudsen, Are. "Widening the Protection Gap: The 'Politics of Citizenship' for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, 1948-2008." Journal of Refugee Studies 22.1 (2009): 51-73. Link to Article
Keyword: protection, citizenship, refugee, Palestinians, Lebanon, politics, statelessness
The status of Palestinian refugees is complex in their host countries and in international law. This article demonstrates how there exist a protection gap for Palestinian refugees which was created and widened by historically contingent, international, regional and national legal rights regimes. As such, the author examines the rights of Palestinian refugees under international law, especially with the creation of UNRWA; the 'Casablanca Protocol;' the implications of weak international and weakened regional protection for refugees in Lebanon; the role of the executive's patronage of the judiciary i post-civil war Lebanon demonstrating how the 'politics of citizenship' widened the protection gap and institutionalized legal discrimination against refugees.
Latif, Nadia. “Fallahin, Fida'Iyyin, Laji'in: Palestinian Camp Refugees in Lebanon as Autochthons.” Arab Studies Journal 19.1 (2011): 42-64. Link to Article
Keyword: refugee camps, Lebanon, Fallahin, Fida'Iyyin, Laji'in, autochthons
This essay explores the contours of the roles in Palestinian nationalist narratives as peasants, freedom fights and refugees through a comparison of their representations in nationalist narrative and in Palestinian camp refugees' accounts of their lives in Lebanon during 2003-2006.
Meier, Daniel. "Matrimonial Strategies and Identity Relations between Palestinian Refugees and Lebanese After the Lebanese Civil War." Journal of Refugee Studies 23.2 (2010): 111-133. (summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: matrimonial, identity, relations, Palestinian, refugees, Lebanese, civil war, Lebanon, intermarriage
This paper examines relationships between matrimonial ties and identity in post civil war Lebanon with regard to the Palestinian refugee case. The author demonstrates the implications of Lebanese and Palestinian shared history, gives a general overview of issues related to the presence of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, examines narrative registers used by the Lebanese-Palestinian couples, and evaluates collective determination of choices in marriages.
Parkinson, Sarah E., and Orkideh Behrouzan. "Negotiating Health and Life: Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Access in Lebanon." Social Science and Medicine 146 (2015): 324-331. Link to Article
Keyword: health, life, Syrian, refugees, politics, Lebanon
This article explores the interplay between access to healthcare and refugees' daily experiences of exile, and humanitarian bureaucracy. The author draws on 'therapeutic geographies' to argue for the integration of the local socio political context and situated knowledge into understandings of humanitarian healthcare systems.