Resources on Refugees
Forthcoming BADIL Publications
Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced
Palestinians 2003
The Survey provides basic historic
and current information on Palestinian refugees and internally
displaced persons. The Survey includes 6 chapters covering the
historical circumstances of Palestinian displacement, population,
legal status, socio-economic profile, international protection and
assistance, and durable solutions. Available in English and Arabic.
200 pages. ISSN 1728-1679.
For advance orders contact, [email protected]
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Global
Palestine Right of Return Coalition
Includes working
papers submitted to the fourth annual meeting of the Global
Palestine Right of Return Coalition held in London, November 2003.
The publication also includes a summary of discussions and debate
as well as the final statement issued by the Coalition. Arabic with
English summaries.
For advance orders contact, [email protected].
Selected BADIL Publications
“Experiencing the Right of Return, Palestinian Refugees
Visit Bosnia”
This 20 video documents a study visit of a delegation of
Palestinian refugees to Bosnia-Herzegovina in June 2002. The
delegation, comprised of refugees from Palestine/Israel, Lebanon,
Jordan, Syria, and Europe traveled to Bosnia in order to
understand: What was done and how? What didn’t work and why? What
are the lessons for Palestinians and their struggle for the
implementation of the right of return and real property
restitution?
To order contact, [email protected]. Available in English and
Arabic.
Al-Quds 1948: al-ahya’ al-‘arabiyah wa-masiruha fi harb
1948
Salim Tamari (ed.). Published by BADIL Resource
Center and the Institute for Palestine Studies, 2002. ISBN
9953-9001-9-1.
To order contact IPS-Beirut, [email protected], or
www.palestine-studies.org.
BADIL Hebrew Language Packet/The Right of
Return
The Packet includes:
· Main Reader, ‘Palestinian Refugees:’ overview of the issue and
demands of Palestinian refugees; law and principles guiding
solutions to refugee problems; answers to frequently asked
questions; obstacles to be tackled by a law- and rights-based
solution (24 pages);
· Legal Brief, ‘Palestinian Refugees and their Right of Return, an
International Law Analysis’ (16 pages);
· Executive Summary, ‘The Right of Return:’ Report of the Joint
British Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into Refugee Choice (28
pages; translation from the English original published in London,
March 2002);
· Readers’ feedback sheet and background information about BADIL
Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights.
The BADIL Hebrew-language Information Packet is availablefor NIS
30. For postal orders inside Israel, please send a check to Andalus
Publishers, PO Box 53036, Tel Aviv 61530
([email protected]).
BADIL Expert Forum Working Papers
A complete list of all working papers commissioned for the BADIL
Expert Forum on Palestinian Refugees is available on the BADIL
website. Papers address the relationship between international law
and peacemaking, housing and property restitution for refugees,
international protection, and obstacles to implementation of
durable solutions for Palestinian refugees.
See, http://www.badil.org/Campaign/Expert_Forum.htm
Resources from other Publishers
Forced Migration Online (FMO)
FMO is a digital library with approximately 3,000 full-text
documents in electronic format which can be searched, read and
printed as required. It includes recent and historical grey
(unpublished) literature and research materials. FMO was launched
in November 2002.
www.forcedmigration.org.
Forced Migration Review (FMR)
FMR is the in-house journal of the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen
Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. FMR is a 48-page magazine
published three / four times a year in English, Spanish and Arabic
and produced in collaboration with the Global IDP Project of the
Norwegian Refugee Council. FMR serves the humanitarian community by
providing a practice-oriented forum for debate on issues facing
refugees and internally displaced people in order to improve policy
and practice and to involve refugees and IDPs in programme design
and implementation.
English, www.fmreview.org. Arabic, www.hijra.org.uk. Email:
[email protected].
Access Denied
Palestinian Land Rights in Israel
Hussein Abu Hussein and Fiona McKay
The struggle for land has been a key element of the conflict
between Jews and Arabs in Palestine for the past hundred years.
While international attention focuses on Israeli settlements in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip, legally outside Israel's boundaries,
there is another dimension to the land question altogether. Nearly
one-fifth of Israel's population is Palestinian. This book examines
how Israeli land policy today inhibits access to land for its own
Arab citizens even within the 1948 boundaries of the state of
Israel.
To order contact, Zed Books, www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk.
Beer Sheba and Gaza Map 1948
This map, produced by the Palestine Land Society, covers an area
which has been largely unknown or misunderstood. It provides
information 77 Bedouin clans in the Beer Sheba and Gaza area,
including their location in 1948, their expulsion, their current
place of refuge and their land claims. The map is based on
travellers and military maps before WWI, British Mandate maps,
papers of the Beer Sheba District Officer Aref al-Aref, information
from Beer Sheba Societies in Gaza, Jordan and Israel, and personal
interviews. Scale 1:120,000. Size: 70 x 100 cm.
To order the English map contact, [email protected]. Arabic,
[email protected].
Returning Home: Housing and Property Restitution Rights of
Refugees and Displaced Persons
Scott Leckie (ed.). Forward by Theo van Boven
This volume is a unique effort to cover the topic of the
restitution of housing and property in light of lessons learned in
the Balkans, South Africa, East Timor, and in a range of other
countries that have made the shift from conflict to peace.
Individual chapters by authors with direct experience dealing with
housing and properyt restitution in particular contexts will bring
into focus the legal and human rights aspects of this question.
Several chapters deal with unresolved restitution cases, all of
which will require resolution sooner or later, including in
Georgia, Turkey, and for specific groups including Palestinian
refuges, indigenous peoples and the internally displaced
themselves. Housing and property restitution is now viewed as an
essential element of post-conflict reconstruction. It is a primary
means of reversing ‘ethnic cleansing’ and vital to securing a
war-torn nation’s future stability. All parties involved in human
rights, refugee assistance, post-conflict reconstruction and
reconciliation, and property rights will find this volume to be an
indispensable resource.
To order contact Transnational Publishers, Inc.,
[email protected] or www.transnationalpubs.com
Records of Dispossession, Palestinian Refugee Property and
the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Michael R. Fischbach
From late 1947 through 1948, more than 726,000 Palestinians – about
one-half the entire population – left their homes and villages.
While some middle class refugees fled with liquid capital, the
majority consisted of small-scale farmers whose worldly fortunes
were the land, livestock, and crops they had left behind. For the
first time this book tells the full story of how much property was
left behind, what it was worth and how it was used by the fledgling
state of Israel. It then traces the subsequent decades of
diplomatic activity on the issue.
To order contact, www.columbia.edu/cu/cup.
The Politics of Denial, Israel and the Palestinian Refugee
Problem
Nur Masalha
The aim of this book is to analyse Israeli policies towards the
Palestinian refugees as they evolved from the 1948 catastrophe (or
nakba) to the present. It is the first volume to look in detail at
Israeli law and policy surrounding the refugee question. Drawing on
extensive primary sources and previously classified archive
material, Masalha discusses the 1948 exodus; Israeli resettlement
schemes since 1948; Israeli approaches to compensation and
restitution of property; Israeli refugee policies towards the
internally displaced (‘present absentees’); and Israeli refugee
policies during the Madrid and Oslo negotiations.
To order contact Pluto Press, www.plutobooks.com.