LEADER 03653nam 2200685 450 001 9910466340003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54292-5 024 7 $a10.7312/hajj18062 035 $a(CKB)3710000000954503 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4733995 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724135 035 $a(DE-B1597)478164 035 $a(OCoLC)1023549774 035 $a(OCoLC)979754207 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231542920 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4733995 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11527109 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000954503 100 $a20160411h20172017 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aProtection amid chaos $ethe creation of property rights in Palestinian refugee camps /$fNadya Hajj 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aColumbia studies in Middle East politics 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-231-18062-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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. 330 $aHow do communities find protection in chaotic political economic settings? This book endeavors to show how normal people placed in extraordinarily difficult conditions created protections for their assets and buffered against outsider predation through property rights. The research project focuses on Palestinians living in seven refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Using interviews with 200 Palestinian refugees, legal title documents, memoirs, and United Nations Relief Works Agency archives the author traces the evolution of property rights from informal understandings of ownership to formal legal claims of assets and resources to shed light on how communities thrive in challenging political economic spaces. Initially, Palestinians deployed bits and pieces of their pre-refugee life to craft property rights that met the challenges of living in refugee camps. Later, as the camps increased in complexity with expanding markets and new outsiders entering the political fray, then Palestinians strategically melded their informal institutional practices with the formal rules of political outsiders. Palestinian refugees, to varying degrees of success, managed to protect their assets and community from predation and state incorporation. 410 0$aColumbia studies in Middle East politics. 606 $aRefugee property, Palestinian$zLebanon 606 $aRefugee property, Palestinian$zJordan 606 $aRight of property$zLebanon 606 $aRight of property$zJordan 606 $aRefugee camps$zLebanon 606 $aRefugee camps$zJordan 606 $aPalestinian Arabs$xClaims 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRefugee property, Palestinian 615 0$aRefugee property, Palestinian 615 0$aRight of property 615 0$aRight of property 615 0$aRefugee camps 615 0$aRefugee camps 615 0$aPalestinian Arabs$xClaims. 676 $a323.4/6091749274 700 $aHajj$b Nadya$01047748 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466340003321 996 $aProtection amid chaos$92475557 997 $aUNINA