@article{ref1,
title="DIFFICULT DISTINCTIONS: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice, and Political Identification in Gaza",
journal="Cultural anthropology",
year="2007",
author="Feldman, Ilana",
volume="22",
number="1",
pages="129-169",
abstract="In this article, I explore the intersection of humanitarian practice and refugee law in shaping categories of “refugee” and “citizen” in Gaza in the first years after 1948. I examine how humanitarian practice produced enduring distinctions within the Gazan population and provided a space in which ideas about Palestinian citizenship began to take shape. A key argument is that humanitarianism, despite commitments to political neutrality, often has profound and enduring political effects. In this case, humanitarian distinctions contributed to making the “refugee” a central figure in the Palestinian political landscape. I also consider how humanitarianism in Palestine was guided by the larger, emerging postwar refugee regime, even as Palestinians were formally excluded from some of its mechanisms.<p />",
language="",
issn="0886-7356",
doi="10.1525/can.2007.22.1.129",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/can.2007.22.1.129"
}