Protection amid chaos [electronic resource] : the creation of property rights in Palestinian refugee camps / Nadya Hajj.

How do communities find protection in chaotic political economic settings? This book endeavors to show how normal people placed in extraordinarily difficult conditions created protections for their assets and buffered against outsider predation through property rights. The research project focuses o...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Online Access (A-Z Journals and Newspapers)
Main Author: Hajj, Nadya (Author)
Other title:Protection Amid Chaos: The Creation of Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Series:Columbia studies in Middle East politics
Subjects:

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000003i 4500
001 ebs11982195e
003 EBZ
006 m o d ||||||
007 cr|unu||||||||
008 160411s2017 nyua ob 001 0 eng
020 |z 9780231180627 
020 |a 9780231542920 (online) 
035 |a (EBZ)ebs11982195e 
040 |a DGU/DLC   |b eng   |d EBZ 
042 |a pcc 
050 0 0 |a KMK2695.P35  |b H35 2017 
100 1 |a Hajj, Nadya,  |e author 
245 1 0 |a Protection amid chaos  |h [electronic resource] :  |b the creation of property rights in Palestinian refugee camps /  |c Nadya Hajj. 
246 2 |a Protection Amid Chaos: The Creation of Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps 
264 1 |a New York :  |b Columbia University Press,  |c [2017] 
490 0 |a Columbia studies in Middle East politics 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index. 
505 0 |a A theory of property rights formation in Palestinian refugee camps -- Crafting informal property rights in Fawdah -- Formal property rights in refugee camps in Jordan -- Formal property rights in refugee camps in Lebanon -- Renegotiating property rights in Nahr Al Bared camp. 
520 |a How do communities find protection in chaotic political economic settings? This book endeavors to show how normal people placed in extraordinarily difficult conditions created protections for their assets and buffered against outsider predation through property rights. The research project focuses on Palestinians living in seven refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Using interviews with 200 Palestinian refugees, legal title documents, memoirs, and United Nations Relief Works Agency archives the author traces the evolution of property rights from informal understandings of ownership to formal legal claims of assets and resources to shed light on how communities thrive in challenging political economic spaces. Initially, Palestinians deployed bits and pieces of their pre-refugee life to craft property rights that met the challenges of living in refugee camps. Later, as the camps increased in complexity with expanding markets and new outsiders entering the political fray, then Palestinians strategically melded their informal institutional practices with the formal rules of political outsiders. Palestinian refugees, to varying degrees of success, managed to protect their assets and community from predation and state incorporation. 
650 0 |a Refugee property, Palestinian  |z Lebanon. 
650 0 |a Refugee property, Palestinian  |z Jordan. 
650 0 |a Right of property  |z Lebanon. 
650 0 |a Right of property  |z Jordan. 
650 0 |a Refugee camps  |z Lebanon. 
650 0 |a Refugee camps  |z Jordan. 
650 0 |a Palestinian Arabs  |x Claims. 
776 0 8 |i Online version:  |a Hajj, Nadya, author  |t Protection amid chaos  |d New York : Columbia University Press, 2017  |z 9780231542920  |w (DLC) 2016020769 
776 1 |t Protection amid chaos  |w (DLC)2016015785 
856 4 |u https://publications.ebsco.com/?custId=s8860338&groupId=main&profileId=pfui&resourceTypeFacet[]=Book&search=9780231180627&searchField=isxn&searchtype=beginswith  |z Online Access (A-Z Journals and Newspapers)