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SUMMARY:Refugees and the Urban Poor: Marginality\, Control\, and Politics 
 in Two Palestinian Enclaves - Silvia Pasquetti (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 exploring their differing sen
 se of injustice\, politics\, and morality. I argue that a focus on place (
 camp versus city) and legal-political status (refugees versus minority cit
 izens) alone cannot explain how and why\, despite their ethnonational and 
 kin ties\, these two segments of poor Palestinians differ in how they perc
 eive and articulate issues of survival and politics. Explaining these diff
 erences requires exploring the forms of sociolegal control they experience
  in their everyday lives. Specifically\, it requires studying their distin
 ct relationships with the Israeli state’s coercive agencies and\, for th
 e refugees\, their protracted relationship with humanitarian organizations
 . The paper concludes by calling for more comparative research on the role
  of agencies of control in the articulation of practices and meanings of s
 urvival and politics in localities of urban marginality. A focus on the in
 terplay between control and space can help bring the urban poor and refuge
 es in the same analytic framework thus enriching ongoing urban sociology d
 ebates about urban marginality.\n
LOCATION:Room SG1 of the Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, CB39DT\, 
 Cambridge
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