More than four million Palestinian refugees live in protracted exile across the Middle East. Taking a regional approach to Palestinian refugee exile and alienation across the Levant, this book proposes a new understanding of the spatial and political dimensions of refugee camps across the Middle East.

Introduction Part I: Space, Governance and Locality 1. Cartographic Violence, Displacement and Refugee Camps: Palestine and Iraq 2. Governing the Palestinian Refugees Camps in Lebanon and Syria: The Cases of Nahr El-Bared and Yarmouk Camps 3. Palestinian Camp Refugee Identifications: A New Look at the "Local" and the "National" Part II: Urbanisation, Place and Politics 4. Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon: Migration, Mobility and the Urbanization Process 5. Refugees Plan the Future of Al Fawwar: Piloting Strategic Camp Improvement in Palestine Refugee Camps 6. Nahr el-Bared: The Political Fall-out of a Refugee Disaster Part III: Civic Rights, Legal Status and Reparations 7. Passport for what Price? Statelessness Among Palestinian Refugees 8. Dynamics of Humanitarian Aid, Local and Regional Politics: The Palestine Refugees as a Case-Study 9. Reparations to Palestinian Refugees: The Politics of Saying 'Sorry' Part IV: Memory, Agency and Incorporation 10. 'The One Still Surviving and Viable Institution' 11. 'A World of Movement': Memory and Reality for Palestinian Women in the Camps of Lebanon 12. Politics, Patronage and Popular Committees in the Shatila Refugee Camp, Lebanon