Children of Palestine

Dawn Chatty is University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration and Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. She is a social anthropologist with long experience in the Middle East as a university teacher, development practitioner, and advocate for indigenous rights. She has taught at the Universities of California at Santa Barbara, at the American University of Beirut, at the University of Damascus, and at Sultan Qaboos University. She has worked with various international agencies including UNDP, UNICEF, FAO, IFAD, and USAID. She is also co-editor (with Marcus Colchester) of Conservation and Mobile Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (Berghahn Books, 2002).

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Children of Palestine Narrate Forced Migration

Dawn Chatty and Gillian Lewando Hundt



Chapter 2. Palestinian Refugee Children and Caregivers in Lebanon

Bassem Serhan and Samia Tabari



Chapter 3. Palestinian Refugee Children and Caregivers in Syria

Adnan Abdul-Rahim with the assistance of Hala Salem Abuateya



Chapter 4. Palestinian Refugee Children and Caregivers in Jordan

Randa Farah



Chapter 5. Palestinian Refugee Children and Caregivers in the West Bank

Salah Alzaroo



Chapter 6. Palestinian Refugee Children and Caregivers in the Gaza Strip

Abdel Aziz Thabet and Hala Abuateya



Chapter 7. Policy Implications and Summary of Main Findings

Dawn Chatty and Gillian Lewando Hundt



Appendix I: Methodology

Appendix II: Literature Review

Appendix III: Sample Newsletters



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