New Issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly

A double issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly has just been published (vol. 28, nos. 2-3, 2010) that focuses on "UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees 60 Years Later." Three introductory articles provide information about the articles that appear in this issue, some history, and some personal reflections on the role of the agency. The contributions to this issue are organized under three headings: Context and Evolution; Protection; and Looking Toward the Future.

Titles include:

• The Status of the Palestinian Refugees in the Near East: The Right of Return and UNRWA in Perspective


• From Emergency Relief Assistance to Human Development and Back: UNRWA and the Palestinian Refugees, 1950–2009


• Palestinian Refugee Youth: Agency and Aspiration


• Palestinian Refugee Camps: From Shelter to Habitat


• Testing a New Paradigm: UNRWA’s Camp Improvement Programme


• UNRWA: Through the Eyes of its Refugee Employees in Jordan


• UNRWA and the Palestine Refugees: A Genealogy of "Participatory" Development


• Sixty Years of UNRWA: From Service Provision to Refugee Protection


• The Mandate of UNRWA at Sixty


• UNHCR and the International Protection of Palestinian Refugees


• Is there Really a Protection Gap? UNRWA’s Role vis-à-vis Palestinian Refugees


• The Palestinians in Egypt: Identity, Basic Rights and Host State Policies


• Towards a Protection Strategy for UNRWA


• Future Prospects for the Palestinian Refugees


• Israel, UNRWA, and the Palestinian Refugee Issue


• Peace Prospects and Implications for UNRWA’s Future: An International Law Perspective


• UNRWA’s Policy Analysis and other Research Needs: Strengthening Knowledge Management Within the Agency

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