Resources on refugees
Resources on Refugees
New BADIL Publications
Survey of
Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Palestinians 2002.
This new publication by BADIL provides basic historical 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. The Survey will be published
annually by BADIL Resource Center. Available in English and Arabic.
[ADD PAGE NUMBERS] For orders contact, [email protected]
International Mechanisms for Protection and Durable Solutions for Palestinian Refugees
“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?
Producer (Copyright): BADIL Resource Center.
Technical Production: ISIS for Audio-Visual Production.
Director: Alexander Goekjian.
Palestine, 2002.
For orders 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.
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 It includes recent and historical grey (unpublished) literature and research materials.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. For more information contact, [email protected]. See also, 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.
Current and back issues of the English language version are online at www.fmreview.org and in Arabic at www.hijra.org.uk.
Contact: Editors, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LA, UK
tel: +44 (0)1865 280700 Fax +44 (0)1865 270721 Email: [email protected]
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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.
Its authors - one a Palestinian lawyer and Israeli citizen, the
other a British international human rights lawyer who worked in
Israel for many years - examine the system of land ownership, the
acquisition and administration of public land, and the control of
land use through planning and housing regulations. The book reveals
that the law is used to discriminate against non-Jewish citizens
and restrict Israeli Palestinians' access to land. The authors
demonstrate that Israeli land policies breach international human
rights standards and that these standards could be used as a basis
to challenge discriminatory policies.
The book may be ordered from Zed Books,
www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk
HbISBN 1 84277 122 1 £ 49.95 $75.00
PbISBN 1 84277 123 X £ 15.95 $25.00
Beer Sheba and Gaza Map 1948
Second Edition, February 2003
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.
For orders contact: [email protected]
Resources from other Publishers
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.
Summer 2003. Approx. 450 pages. ISBN 1-57105-241-0. USD
125.00/hardcover. Special 30% Pre-Publication Discount for Orders
Received by 8/30/2003. Contact Transnational Publishers, Inc.,
[email protected] or www.transnationalpubs.com
National Perspectives on Housing Rights
Scott Leckie (ed.) Forward by Nelson Mandela
More than
one billion people around the world do not have adequate housing.
How far does human rights law help to remedy this problem? What
measures must governments take to protect people against housing
rights violations? What are the strengths and weaknesses of human
rights law in the housing area? Is the current law enough, or are
new laws necessary? These and many other questions are addressed in
the various chapters contained in this book.
May 2003, 335 pages/hardcover. ISBN 90-411-2013-0. USD 125.00. To
order contact, www.kluwerlaw.com
Records of Dispossession, Palestinian Refugee Property and
the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Michael R. Fischbach
Afforded unprecedented access to
the UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine’s untouched archives,
Michael Fischbach has written a path-breaking study of one of the
largest and most vexing refugee movements of the twentieth century.
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.
December 2003, 520 pages, 99 figures. ISBN 0-231-12978-5. USD
39.50. Contact www.columbia.edu/cu/cup