eprintid: 10140826
rev_number: 12
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
dir: disk0/10/14/08/26
datestamp: 2021-12-21 10:59:58
lastmod: 2021-12-21 10:59:58
status_changed: 2021-12-21 10:59:58
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Irfan, AE
title: Educating Palestinian Refugees: The Origins of UNRWA’s Unique Schooling System
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C01
divisions: K22
keywords: Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, education, refugee camps, Middle East
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: This article examines the origins of the unique schooling system for Palestinian refugees run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Examining developments c. 1950–57, it illuminates the programme’s beginning and explores the objectives of those behind it. Using archival evidence from numerous international welfare organizations and testimonies from refugees themselves, this article argues that the parties providing education and the refugees receiving it often had conflicting objectives that were highly politicized on both sides. Despite the comparatively greater power and resources of the United Nations, the Palestinian refugees were able to make use of their limited leverage in order to shape the education system as they preferred. The UNRWA education programme thus serves as a revealing case study for explaining developmental aid to refugee populations and its inevitable intersection with politics.
date: 2021-03
date_type: published
publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez051
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1910749
doi: 10.1093/jrs/fez051
lyricists_name: Irfan, Anne
lyricists_id: AIRFA04
actors_name: Zahnhausen-Stuber, Petra
actors_id: PMZAH20
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Refugee Studies
volume: 34
number: 1
pagerange: 1037-1059
citation:        Irfan, AE;      (2021)    Educating Palestinian Refugees: The Origins of UNRWA’s Unique Schooling System.                   Journal of Refugee Studies , 34  (1)   pp. 1037-1059.    10.1093/jrs/fez051 <https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs%2Ffez051>.       Green open access   
 
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