Article ID: CBB119974129

Multilocality and the Politics of Space in Protracted Exile: The Case of a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank (March 2021)

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This article employs the concept of multilocality to analyze the politics of space under the condition of protracted encampment. Rather than adopting a common synchronic approach to how refugees relate to space, the theoretical lens of multilocality grasps the diachronic dimension of protracted camps understood as places that encompass multiple attachments across time and space: the remembered and imagined places of origin, sites of residence in exile, and future geographies of hope or anticipation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in al-Am'ari, a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank, I analyze multilocality as a political practice whereby local residents and organizations nurture the refugee identity of their communities, resist the permanence of protracted exile, and manifest the necessity for political change.

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Authors & Contributors
Patrícia Matos
Elisenda Ardévol
Hosna J. Shewly
Baatarnaran Tsetsentsolmon
Howard, Christopher
Matthew B. Flynn
Concepts
Mobility
Ethnography
Refugees
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Migration
Infrastructure
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Europe
Barcelona (Spain)
Palestine
Romania
India
Mediterranean Sea
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