Peter Gatrell, Katarzyna Nowak, Lauren Banko, and Anindita Ghoshal Adopts a global and comparative perspective to refugee history Combines the fields of refugee history and refugee studies Draws upon original unpublished archival material including letters and petitions authored by refugees
Explores the colonial, social and political history of the creation of citizenship in mandate Palestine In the two decades after the First World War, nationality and citizenship in Palestine became less like abstract concepts for the Arab population and more like meaningful statuses integrated into political, social and civil life and as markers of civic identity in a changing society. This book situates the evolution of citizenship at the centre of state formation under the