Gaza Stripped: Palestinian Refugees within an International and State Context

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Abstract: The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict has created one of the longest standing refugee populations in the world, Palestinian refugees. The issue of Palestinian refugees poses a complicated problem within the larger context of refugees due to the fact that Palestinian refugees fall under the protection of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). This excludes Palestinian refugees from the 1951 Refugee Convention, which is responsible for outlining the legal protections that refugees are able to access. Why are there two separate entities for managing international refugees and Palestinian refugees? Is there a larger international umbrella that protects Palestinian refugee interests, and if not, does the treatment of Palestinian refugees vary based on geographic location? This thesis aims to understand the Palestinian refugee issue within an international context through the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and UNRWA, as well as within a geopolitical state context through an examination of Jordan and its political history and policy.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 5, 2018

Author	Liew, Alyssa
Advisor	Krasner, Stephen
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Program in International Relations

Subject	International Relations
Subject	Program in International Relations
Subject	Palestinian
Subject	refugee
Subject	regime
Subject	international refugee regime
Subject	UNHCR
Subject	UNRWA
Subject	Lebanon
Subject	Jordan
Subject	Syria
Subject	Gaza
Subject	West Bank
Subject	regional refugee regime
Subject	state interests
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/tv347zv9980

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Preferred Citation: Alyssa Liew. Gaza Stripped: Palestinian Refugees within an International and State Context. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/tv347zv9980

Stanford University, Program in International Relations, Honors Theses

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