Lauren Banko
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Banko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Banko |
| SIGNATURE | BANKO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7960-7555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Editors’ Preface
Sayed’s Journey to Encampment
Using the framework of microhistory, the following article explores the notion of ‘encampment’ in relation to economically displaced labourers who crossed into Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s. It considers what a new reading of ‘encampment’ might offer to the historical and inter-disciplinary studies of refugeehood, migration, borders, and forced displacement. The article traces the story of one such labourer, displaced from Egypt to the port ci…
The quiet violence of colonialism and the uncertainty of illegibility
Deportations of socio-economically marginal migrants are a form of quiet, non-brutal violence. This violence is not spectacular nor does it typically cause immediate injury or death. Building on histories of immigration and deportation, research on structural violence in colonial settings and critical studies of affect and emotion, this article considers how the deportation regime in the interwar Middle East and specifically in Palestine affected…
What is refugee history, now
Refugee history at present lacks a conceptual framework, notwithstanding the proliferation of recent contributions that contribute to enlarging the field. Our article seeks to advance refugee history by drawing upon extensive research into historical case studies and proposing the framework of refugeedom. Refugeedom takes proper account of the states and other actors that defined the ‘refugee’ as a category and sought to manage refugees as figure…
Grief, a Wedding Veil, and Bureaucratic Persecution
The histories of refugees and forced displacement do not often consider the impact of grief and loss upon the family members of such individuals. This essay places the story of one such family member, a young woman who lost her parents, brother, and her fiancé on the sinking of a ship filled with refugees during the Second World War, as the focal point of an exploration of grief, material possessions, and migration, amidst the bureaucratic mechan…
Political Parties in the Middle East
This comprehensive collection addresses the important question of political parties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Written by historians, political scientists, and sociologists of the region, the book provides a pertinent analytical framework to understand the often complex and turbulent histories of these political parties, their role within the region, and their prospects in the wake of the post-2011 Arab Uprisings. The authors exp…
Migrants, Residents, and the Cost of Illegal Home-Making in Mandate Palestine
This article seeks to underscore the need for a broader historical framework for understanding belonging in Mandate Palestine in order to incorporate nonsettler migrants.Using the notion of "home" and situating physical houses and structures of home, I investigate the stories of certain migrants who came to Palestine not as part of the settler-colonial, Zionist movement but nonetheless with the hope to settle and reside there alongside and within…
Historiography and Approaches to the British Mandate in Palestine
On the centennial of British administration in Palestine, reflections on the subsequent military and then civil government should be linked with the prevailing reality that the geographical territory and the population of the region continue to live with the remnants of the Palestine Mandate (1922–1948). This special issue of Contemporary Levant, co-edited by Lauren Banko, Roberto Mazza, and Steven Wagner, neither sees the Mandate as a structure …
A stranger from this homeland’
This article explores Mandate Palestine’s immigration policy through the stories of migrants and settled residents who attempted to resist government-issued deportation orders for their removal from the territory. Individuals who lived in and crossed the borders and frontiers of interwar Palestine without the necessary permissions from the mandate government began to negotiate their relationship with the state once they received deportation order…
Keeping Out the ‘Undesirable Elements’
In the new era of border control beginning after the First World War, the British-administered Palestine Mandate perceived non-Zionist migration as largely undesirable. Both discursively and practically, the Mandate administration crafted the category of the ‘undesirable migrant’ in order to limit its own responsibility for the presence in Palestine of economic, social, political, and morally undesirable Arab and Jewish migrants. Not only did the…
Refugees, Displaced Migrants, and Territorialization in Interwar Palestine
The history of undocumented movement into mandate Palestine by non-Zionist displaced migrants and refugees is one which naturally highlights the territorialization of Palestine’s geopolitical space. From 1920, Great Britain, as the mandatory power in Palestine, bolstered its control over the territory’s physical space through its classification and categorization of refugees and displaced migrants, and the regulation of their movement. Yet, the r…
Introduction to political parties in the Middle East
Claiming Identities in Palestine
In the decades just prior to the end of World War I, residents of the Ottoman Empire's provinces alternated with ease between a variety of personal identities and affiliations. Overlapping imperial, supranational, and localized identities could all be claimed with flexibility by Arab travelers and migrants in the region and in the wider diaspora. Arab, and later Jewish, inhabitants of Palestine conceived of nationality as a choice based on person…
The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918-1947
This book situates the evolution of citizenship at the centre of state formation under the quasi-colonial mandate administration in Palestine. The book presents a new understanding of the Arabs' reactions to colonialism and Jewish immigration into Palestine by framing resistance to mandate policies and the early stages of the development of the political project of Palestinian nationalism through the articulated appeals, discussions, ideologies a…
Gender Differences in Response to Setbacks
Objective We inquire whether the glass ceiling stems in part from the fact that women are more discouraged by setbacks than men are, as suggested by economic and psychological experiments. We use data from professional tennis to test this hypothesis. Method We apply ordered probit, ordinary least squares, and binomial probit to data from the 2012 ATP and WTA tennis tours. Results Women are not more likely than men to lose in straight sets or to l…
Imperial Questions and Social Identities
During the interwar period in the Middle East, and specifically in Palestine, the British and French introduced legal statuses and new notions of belonging in the form of nationality, citizenship and passport regulations. These new statuses for the former Ottoman subjects, the majority of whom were Arab, reflected colonial and imperial norms and they incorporated the changing international terminology of identity issued from the League of Nations…
Occupational hazards, Revisited
The following article is intended to pick up where anthropologist Ted Swedenburg left off 23 years ago in his article on ethnographic research in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Very little has been written on the same theme of hazards and problems faced by historians researching in the West Bank, particularly those who carry out archival research. For historians and other researchers it is important to know the problems of finding and access…
The creation of Palestinian citizenship under an international mandate
The history of the development of Palestinian nationalism is vast and recent scholarship continues to focus on the creation of national identities in the modern Middle East. However, the creation of internationally recognised citizenship of the Arab Middle East during the era of mandates has not been studied in-depth. In the case of Palestine, the creation of Palestinian citizenship by the British as a colonial power was a unique yet delicate pro…
The quiet violence of colonialism and the uncertainty of illegibility
Deportations of socio-economically marginal migrants are a form of quiet, non-brutal violence. This violence is not spectacular nor does it typically cause immediate injury or death. Building on histories of immigration and deportation, research on structural violence in colonial settings and critical studies of affect and emotion, this article considers how the deportation regime in the interwar Middle East and specifically in Palestine affected…
What is refugee history, now
Refugee history at present lacks a conceptual framework, notwithstanding the proliferation of recent contributions that contribute to enlarging the field. Our article seeks to advance refugee history by drawing upon extensive research into historical case studies and proposing the framework of refugeedom. Refugeedom takes proper account of the states and other actors that defined the ‘refugee’ as a category and sought to manage refugees as figure…
Keeping Out the ‘Undesirable Elements’
In the new era of border control beginning after the First World War, the British-administered Palestine Mandate perceived non-Zionist migration as largely undesirable. Both discursively and practically, the Mandate administration crafted the category of the ‘undesirable migrant’ in order to limit its own responsibility for the presence in Palestine of economic, social, political, and morally undesirable Arab and Jewish migrants. Not only did the…
Gender Differences in Response to Setbacks
Objective We inquire whether the glass ceiling stems in part from the fact that women are more discouraged by setbacks than men are, as suggested by economic and psychological experiments. We use data from professional tennis to test this hypothesis. Method We apply ordered probit, ordinary least squares, and binomial probit to data from the 2012 ATP and WTA tennis tours. Results Women are not more likely than men to lose in straight sets or to l…
Refugees, Displaced Migrants, and Territorialization in Interwar Palestine
The history of undocumented movement into mandate Palestine by non-Zionist displaced migrants and refugees is one which naturally highlights the territorialization of Palestine’s geopolitical space. From 1920, Great Britain, as the mandatory power in Palestine, bolstered its control over the territory’s physical space through its classification and categorization of refugees and displaced migrants, and the regulation of their movement. Yet, the r…
Claiming Identities in Palestine
In the decades just prior to the end of World War I, residents of the Ottoman Empire's provinces alternated with ease between a variety of personal identities and affiliations. Overlapping imperial, supranational, and localized identities could all be claimed with flexibility by Arab travelers and migrants in the region and in the wider diaspora. Arab, and later Jewish, inhabitants of Palestine conceived of nationality as a choice based on person…
Occupational hazards, Revisited
The following article is intended to pick up where anthropologist Ted Swedenburg left off 23 years ago in his article on ethnographic research in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Very little has been written on the same theme of hazards and problems faced by historians researching in the West Bank, particularly those who carry out archival research. For historians and other researchers it is important to know the problems of finding and access…
The creation of Palestinian citizenship under an international mandate
The history of the development of Palestinian nationalism is vast and recent scholarship continues to focus on the creation of national identities in the modern Middle East. However, the creation of internationally recognised citizenship of the Arab Middle East during the era of mandates has not been studied in-depth. In the case of Palestine, the creation of Palestinian citizenship by the British as a colonial power was a unique yet delicate pro…
Occupational hazards, Revisited
The following article is intended to pick up where anthropologist Ted Swedenburg left off 23 years ago in his article on ethnographic research in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Very little has been written on the same theme of hazards and problems faced by historians researching in the West Bank, particularly those who carry out archival research. For historians and other researchers it is important to know the problems of finding and access…
The creation of Palestinian citizenship under an international mandate
The history of the development of Palestinian nationalism is vast and recent scholarship continues to focus on the creation of national identities in the modern Middle East. However, the creation of internationally recognised citizenship of the Arab Middle East during the era of mandates has not been studied in-depth. In the case of Palestine, the creation of Palestinian citizenship by the British as a colonial power was a unique yet delicate pro…
Imperial Questions and Social Identities
During the interwar period in the Middle East, and specifically in Palestine, the British and French introduced legal statuses and new notions of belonging in the form of nationality, citizenship and passport regulations. These new statuses for the former Ottoman subjects, the majority of whom were Arab, reflected colonial and imperial norms and they incorporated the changing international terminology of identity issued from the League of Nations…
The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918-1947
This book situates the evolution of citizenship at the centre of state formation under the quasi-colonial mandate administration in Palestine. The book presents a new understanding of the Arabs' reactions to colonialism and Jewish immigration into Palestine by framing resistance to mandate policies and the early stages of the development of the political project of Palestinian nationalism through the articulated appeals, discussions, ideologies a…
Gender Differences in Response to Setbacks
Objective We inquire whether the glass ceiling stems in part from the fact that women are more discouraged by setbacks than men are, as suggested by economic and psychological experiments. We use data from professional tennis to test this hypothesis. Method We apply ordered probit, ordinary least squares, and binomial probit to data from the 2012 ATP and WTA tennis tours. Results Women are not more likely than men to lose in straight sets or to l…
Introduction to political parties in the Middle East
Claiming Identities in Palestine
In the decades just prior to the end of World War I, residents of the Ottoman Empire's provinces alternated with ease between a variety of personal identities and affiliations. Overlapping imperial, supranational, and localized identities could all be claimed with flexibility by Arab travelers and migrants in the region and in the wider diaspora. Arab, and later Jewish, inhabitants of Palestine conceived of nationality as a choice based on person…
Refugees, Displaced Migrants, and Territorialization in Interwar Palestine
The history of undocumented movement into mandate Palestine by non-Zionist displaced migrants and refugees is one which naturally highlights the territorialization of Palestine’s geopolitical space. From 1920, Great Britain, as the mandatory power in Palestine, bolstered its control over the territory’s physical space through its classification and categorization of refugees and displaced migrants, and the regulation of their movement. Yet, the r…
Historiography and Approaches to the British Mandate in Palestine
On the centennial of British administration in Palestine, reflections on the subsequent military and then civil government should be linked with the prevailing reality that the geographical territory and the population of the region continue to live with the remnants of the Palestine Mandate (1922–1948). This special issue of Contemporary Levant, co-edited by Lauren Banko, Roberto Mazza, and Steven Wagner, neither sees the Mandate as a structure …
A stranger from this homeland’
This article explores Mandate Palestine’s immigration policy through the stories of migrants and settled residents who attempted to resist government-issued deportation orders for their removal from the territory. Individuals who lived in and crossed the borders and frontiers of interwar Palestine without the necessary permissions from the mandate government began to negotiate their relationship with the state once they received deportation order…
Keeping Out the ‘Undesirable Elements’
In the new era of border control beginning after the First World War, the British-administered Palestine Mandate perceived non-Zionist migration as largely undesirable. Both discursively and practically, the Mandate administration crafted the category of the ‘undesirable migrant’ in order to limit its own responsibility for the presence in Palestine of economic, social, political, and morally undesirable Arab and Jewish migrants. Not only did the…
Political Parties in the Middle East
This comprehensive collection addresses the important question of political parties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Written by historians, political scientists, and sociologists of the region, the book provides a pertinent analytical framework to understand the often complex and turbulent histories of these political parties, their role within the region, and their prospects in the wake of the post-2011 Arab Uprisings. The authors exp…
Migrants, Residents, and the Cost of Illegal Home-Making in Mandate Palestine
This article seeks to underscore the need for a broader historical framework for understanding belonging in Mandate Palestine in order to incorporate nonsettler migrants.Using the notion of "home" and situating physical houses and structures of home, I investigate the stories of certain migrants who came to Palestine not as part of the settler-colonial, Zionist movement but nonetheless with the hope to settle and reside there alongside and within…
What is refugee history, now
Refugee history at present lacks a conceptual framework, notwithstanding the proliferation of recent contributions that contribute to enlarging the field. Our article seeks to advance refugee history by drawing upon extensive research into historical case studies and proposing the framework of refugeedom. Refugeedom takes proper account of the states and other actors that defined the ‘refugee’ as a category and sought to manage refugees as figure…
Grief, a Wedding Veil, and Bureaucratic Persecution
The histories of refugees and forced displacement do not often consider the impact of grief and loss upon the family members of such individuals. This essay places the story of one such family member, a young woman who lost her parents, brother, and her fiancé on the sinking of a ship filled with refugees during the Second World War, as the focal point of an exploration of grief, material possessions, and migration, amidst the bureaucratic mechan…
The quiet violence of colonialism and the uncertainty of illegibility
Deportations of socio-economically marginal migrants are a form of quiet, non-brutal violence. This violence is not spectacular nor does it typically cause immediate injury or death. Building on histories of immigration and deportation, research on structural violence in colonial settings and critical studies of affect and emotion, this article considers how the deportation regime in the interwar Middle East and specifically in Palestine affected…
Sayed’s Journey to Encampment
Using the framework of microhistory, the following article explores the notion of ‘encampment’ in relation to economically displaced labourers who crossed into Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s. It considers what a new reading of ‘encampment’ might offer to the historical and inter-disciplinary studies of refugeehood, migration, borders, and forced displacement. The article traces the story of one such labourer, displaced from Egypt to the port ci…
Editors’ Preface
Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (15 works) · History (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · History (11 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Mandate (9 works) · Mandatory Palestine (9 works)