Protection Amid Chaos - The Creation of Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps

Protection Amid Chaos follows Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan as they develop binding claims on assets and resources in challenging spaces. Nadya Hajj shows how they adapt flexible though legitimate property rights claims based on legal knowledge retained from their homeland to the restrictions of refugee life.

Summary

Protection Amid Chaos follows Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan as they develop binding claims on assets and resources in challenging spaces. Nadya Hajj shows how they adapt flexible though legitimate property rights claims based on legal knowledge retained from their homeland to the restrictions of refugee life.

Product details

• Authors: Nadya Hajj, Hajj Nadya
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780231180627
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18062-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics; Columbia Studies in Middle Eas; Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Human Rights, Jordan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Lebanon, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Palestine, Human rights, civil rights, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum