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New Grounds for Invoking Refugee Status

 
The five grounds for persecution or fear of persecution as stated in Article 1A of the 1951 Geneva Convention are 'race, religion, nationality, and membership of a particular social group or political group.’ The 1951 Refugee Convention grounds of '...race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion' are certainly not an exhaustive list for invoking refugee status as proved by the subsequent developments and codification of international refugee law.

Language Engineering and the Israeli Hebracization of the Palestinian Landscape: A Study in Palestinian Resistance Discourse (1997-2010)

 
This study explores Israeli language engineering and the Hebracization of the landscape, with a special emphasis on the cultural and the legal discourse of Palestinian resistance from 1997 to 2010.
Because Palestine lives under a harsh colonial condition under Zionist occupation, the language of struggle and the struggle on language needs to be dealt with accordingly.

Palestinian Migrants in Ramallah

 
Palestinian Migrants in Ramallah, by: Dr. Majid Shihade – Identity, Conflict, Modernity, and Anthropology of knowledge 
The research paper looks into the situation of Palestinian migrants in the Ramallah area. It will examine the question of Palestinians who migrate to the Ramallah area for work, and what issues they face here, and how would this research complicate further the question of the Palestinian migration and refugees.

Law and Society as an approach to studying forced migration

 
How can “law and society” as an approach serves to better understanding and dealing with refugees as an exception to the normal application of law.
In other words, how can “law and society” help normalize the exceptional case that represents refugee hood for the normal proceeding of law. Palestinian refugees are living under the state of exception in most host countries.