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SUMMARY:Refugees and the urban poor: A comparative ethnography of informal
 ity and politics  - Silvia Pasquetti (University of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:This paper builds on recent theorizing about refugee camps as 
 urban sites and about the relationships between the urban poor and refugee
 s (e.g. Agier\, Malkki and Bauman 2002\; Sanyal 2013) to connect and compa
 re two localities of urban marginality across the Green Line between Israe
 l and the West Bank: a West Bank refugee camp and the Arab districts of an
  Israeli city. Drawing on ethnographic research within and across the camp
  and the city it traces the historical and ongoing ties between Palestinia
 n refugees and urban minority citizens while mapping their divergent pract
 ices of survival and politics. I argue that a focus on place (camp versus 
 city) and legal status (refugees versus citizens) alone cannot explain how
  and why\, despite their ethnonational and kin ties\, these two segments o
 f poor Palestinians differ in how they perceive and articulate issues of s
 urvival and politics. Explaining these differences requires exploring the 
 forms of sociolegal control they experience in their everyday lives. Speci
 fically\, it requires studying their distinct relationships with the Israe
 li state’s coercive agencies and\, for the refugees\, their protracted r
 elationship with humanitarian organizations. The paper concludes by callin
 g for more comparative research on the role of agencies of control in the 
 articulation of practices and meanings of survival and politics in localit
 ies of urban marginality. A focus on the interplay between control and spa
 ce can help bring the urban poor and refugees in the same analytic framewo
 rk thus enriching ongoing urban sociology debates about informality and po
 litics 
LOCATION:Room SG1 of the Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, CB39DT\, 
 Cambridge
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