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Book Chapter | 2023

A Necessary Evil: A History of Palestinian Refugee Camps, UNRWA and Jordan, 1950–1970

Kjersti G. Berg (2023)
in Are John Knudsen & Kjersti G. Berg: Continental Encampment. Genealogy of humanitarian containment in the Middle East and Europe. Berghahn vol. 2 pp. 68-97
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https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800738447
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Kjersti G. Berg

Affiliated researcher
  • kjersti.berg@nla.no

SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East

Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
  • Palestine
  • Jordan
  • Encampment
  • Refugee camps
  • Refugees
  • UNRWA
  • United Nations Relief and Works Agency
  • Self-help

Appears in:

CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe
Knudsen, Are John& Kjersti G. Berg (Eds.)

Also in this volume:

  • Humanitarian Lampedusa and the Theatralisation of Crisis
    De Lauri, Antonio
  • Four Buildings and a Bungalow: Architectures of Displacement in Sabra, Beirut
    Knudsen, Are John

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