Children of Palestine

Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-84545-010-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 574 g

Reihe: Forced Migration

Palestinian children and young people living both within and outside of refugee camps in the Middle East are the focus of this book. For more than half a century these children and their caregivers have lived a temporary existence in the dramatic and politically volatile landscape that is the Middle East. These children have been captive to various sorts of stereotyping, both academic and popular. They have been objectified, much as their parents and grandparents, as passive victims without the benefit of international protection. And they have become the beneficiaries of numerous humanitarian aid packages which presume the primacy of the Western model of child development as well as the psycho-social approach to intervention. Giving voice to individual children, in the context of their households and their community, this book aims to move beyond the stereotypes and Western-based models to explore the impact that forced migration and prolonged conflict have had, and continue to have, on the lives of these refugee children.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chatty, Dawn

Hundt, Gillian Lewando

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps, Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Maps

Chapter 1. Introduction: Children of Palestine Narrate Forced Migration

Dawn Chatty and Gillian Lewando Hundt

Chapter 2. Palestinian Refugee Children and Caregivers in Lebanon

Bassem Serhan and Samia Tabari

Chapter 3. Palestinian Refugee Children and Caregivers in Syria

Adnan Abdul-Rahim with the assistance of Hala Salem Abuateya

Chapter 4. Palestinian Refugee Children and Caregivers in Jordan

Randa Farah

Chapter 5. Palestinian Refugee Children and Caregivers in the West Bank

Salah Alzaroo

Chapter 6. Palestinian Refugee Children and Caregivers in the Gaza Strip

Abdel Aziz Thabet and Hala Abuateya

Chapter 7. Policy Implications and Summary of Main Findings

Dawn Chatty and Gillian Lewando Hundt

Appendix I: Methodology

Appendix II: Literature Review

Appendix III: Sample Newsletters

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chatty, Dawn
Dawn Chatty is University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration and Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She is a social anthropologist with long experience in the Middle East as a university teacher, development practitioner, and advocate for indigenous rights. She has taught at the Universities of California at Santa Barbara, at the American University of Beirut, at the University of Damascus, and at Sultan Qaboos University. She has worked with various international agencies including UNDP, UNICEF, FAO, IFAD, and USAID. She is also co-editor (with Marcus Colchester) of Conservation and Mobile Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (Berghahn Books, 2002).

Hundt, Gillian Lewando
Gillian Lewando Hundt is Professor of Social Sciences in Health and Director of the Health Institute, University of Warwick. Her work addresses global issues of power, discrimination and inequity in different local contexts through a focus on health and illness. Currently she is conducting research in England and South Africa and has spent many years living and working in the Middle East where she conducted research on health issues of Palestinians.

Dawn Chatty is University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration and Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She is a social anthropologist with long experience in the Middle East as a university teacher, development practitioner, and advocate for indigenous rights. She has taught at the Universities of California at Santa Barbara, at the American University of Beirut, at the University of Damascus, and at Sultan Qaboos University. She has worked with various international agencies including UNDP, UNICEF, FAO, IFAD, and USAID. She is also co-editor (with Marcus Colchester) of Conservation and Mobile Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (Berghahn Books, 2002).