New scholarship on Palestine part 2: Book launch 'Palestinian Labour and Burj Al-Barajneh Camp'

New scholarship on Palestine part 2: Book launch 'Palestinian Labour and Burj Al-Barajneh Camp' with Nadia Latif. 

This book asks what might be obscured by analyses that present long-term refugee camps in the Global South as spaces of containment where refugees are reduced to “bare life”. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with multiple generations of Palestinian refugees inhabiting a camp located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the book proposes a critical political economic framework that foregrounds the precarious labour of refugee women and men. The book argues that a focus on refugee labour problematizes the distinction between forced and voluntary migration that came to be institutionalized in the post-World War Two era. It also facilitates analysis of the particular ways in which a given refugee camp is integrated into the global capitalist economy.

Location: GG80-82 - Spiegelzaal