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]
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].
Palestinian Refugee Children, International Protection and Durable Solutions. BADIL Information & Discussion Brief No. 10 (2004).
To order 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
Suggested Reading from other Publishers
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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.
Transferring Best Practice
From 9-12 June 2004
the University of Exeter hosted a conference entitled,
“Transferrring Best Practice: An International Workshop on the
Comparative Study of Refugee Return Programmes with Reference to
the Palestinian Context.
To read more about the conference and obtain copies of conference
papers visit the University of Exeter, Politics Department website:
www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/politics/events/palestine/