Networked Refugees

Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age

Bibliographic Data

ID19944997
AuthorsNadya Hajj (0000-0001-8498-3662, Wellesley College, corresponding author)
Year2021
Pages146
Publication date2021-10-19
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueNetworked Refugees (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/luminos.111
OpenAlexW3191870672
Open LibraryOL33916432M
ISBN9780520383241
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited82

Almost 68.5 million refugees in the world today live in a protection gap, the chasm between protections stipulated in the Geneva Convention and the abrogation of those responsibilities by aid agencies. With dwindling humanitarian aid, how do refugee communities solve collective dilemmas? In Networked Refugees, Nadya Hajj finds that Palestinian refugees utilize information communication technology platforms to motivate reciprocity—a cooperative action marked by the mutual exchange of favors and services—and informally seek aid and connection with their transnational diaspora community. Based on surveys conducted with Palestinians throughout the diaspora, interviews with those inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon, and data pulled from online community spaces, these findings pushback against the cynical idea that online organizing is fruitless, emphasizing instead the productivity of these digital networks

Collective action · Convention · Diaspora · Palestinian refugees · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Cooperation · Economic conditions · Emigrant remittances · Information Technology · Palestinian Arab Refugees · Social aspects · Social networks

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