Rooting Displacement, Enlivening Return: An Analysis of Palestinian Refugees' Senses of Place
Hickson, Alice M.
2021
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Today, there are more than 7 million Palestinian refugees dispersed around the world constituting one of the largest and most protracted refugee crises in history. My thesis examines how the protracted refugee crisis has affected Palestinian refugees’ senses of place and belonging in five locations: Lebanon, Jordan, the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel’s 1948 territory. By concentrating on the various ... read morecontours of the right of return debate and expectations across Palestinian societies in these locations, I provide nuanced insights into Palestinian refugees’ complex relationship with place. I situate my analysis within existing scholarship on senses of place and the right of return. In my analysis of BADIL survey data, Twitter hashtags, and the Campus in Camps project archive, I identify that the alignment of people and place is more complicated than what is traditionally enforced in rhetoric around the right of a return to a future Palestinian state. Due to the realities of diasporas, dispersal, and movement, Palestinians feel deeply connected to their homeland and their current spatial locations abroad, in refugee camps, or in occupation. My thesis hopes to expand on how displaced Palestinians construct a history and identity in exile, and how they articulate a sense of belonging, both to a diasporic community and to a Palestinian homeland.
Thesis (B.A.)--Tufts University, 2021.
Advisor: Amahl Bishara.
Committee: Amahl Bishara, Kamran Rastegar.read less - ID:
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