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Palestinians In Kuwait
The Family And The Politics Of Survival
Copyright Year 1988
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Book Description
Originally published in 1987. This study is an investigation of the strategies of survival and adaptation employed by a displaced population; the Palestinians in Kuwait. Dispersal, up-rootedness, and the destruction of many Palestinian villages and neighbourhoods in 1948 shattered the old networks and bonds of solidarity that revolved around the
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Statelessness in Context -- Palestinians Become Refugees -- The Displaced Intelligentsia -- The Place of the Peasantry -- The Family as a Cross-National Entity -- Family Networks: Social Dynamics and Survival -- The Social Foundations of Village and Town Survival in Kuwait -- Village and Town Funds and Associations -- New Crisis in the Diaspora -- Conclusion
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Ghabra, Shafeeq N