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Thursday 8 June 16:00 - 19:00
Lankester Lecture Theatre
Gower Street
#Lecture Theatre
London
WC1E 6BT
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Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System
Family & Education
Join us to celebrate the launch Dr Anne Irfan's new book Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the international refugee system
This event will launch Dr Anne Irfan's new book Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the international refugee system (Columbia University Press). The book traces Palestinian refugee history since the dispossession of 1948, focusing on how refugee camp communities have engaged with international politics via the UN and its Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). It shows how Palestinian refugees invoked international norms to demand their political rights while resisting the UN's categorisation of their plight as an apolitical humanitarian issue. In so doing, it demonstrates that refugee communities are important actors in global politics, not merely aid recipients.
Twitter: @anne_irfan
