Protection amid chaos : the creation of property rights in Palestinian refugee camps /

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How do communities find protection in chaotic political economic settings? This book endeavors to show how normal people placed in extraordinarily difficult conditions created protections for their assets and buffered against outsider predation through property rights. The research project focuses o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hajj, Nadya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Colección:Columbia studies in Middle East politics.
Temas:
Refugee property, Palestinian > Lebanon.
Refugee property, Palestinian > Jordan.
Right of property > Lebanon.
Right of property > Jordan.
Refugee camps > Lebanon.
Refugee camps > Jordan.
Palestinian Arabs > Claims.
Droit de propriété > Liban.
Droit de propriété > Jordanie.
Camps de réfugiés > Liban.
Camps de réfugiés > Jordanie.
Palestiniens > Réclamations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Economy.
Refugee camps.
Refugee property, Palestinian.
Right of property.
Jordan.
Lebanon.
Electronic book.
Claims.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:How do communities find protection in chaotic political economic settings? This book endeavors to show how normal people placed in extraordinarily difficult conditions created protections for their assets and buffered against outsider predation through property rights. The research project focuses on Palestinians living in seven refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Using interviews with 200 Palestinian refugees, legal title documents, memoirs, and United Nations Relief Works Agency archives the author traces the evolution of property rights from informal understandings of ownership to formal legal claims of assets and resources to shed light on how communities thrive in challenging political economic spaces. Initially, Palestinians deployed bits and pieces of their pre-refugee life to craft property rights that met the challenges of living in refugee camps. Later, as the camps increased in complexity with expanding markets and new outsiders entering the political fray, then Palestinians strategically melded their informal institutional practices with the formal rules of political outsiders. Palestinian refugees, to varying degrees of success, managed to protect their assets and community from predation and state incorporation.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231542920
0231542925

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