Palestinian Refugees of Egypt: What Exit Options Are Left for Them?

El-Abed, Oroub

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“…In Egypt, around 13,000 Palestinians fled to safety as a result of the 1948 war and another 33,000 fled as a result of the 1967 war (El-Abed, 2005). In 1950, Egypt signed an agreement with the UNRWA that allowed it to operate in Gaza but not in Egypt in order to avoid creating suitable conditions for Palestinians to remain in Egypt (El-Abed, n.d.).…”

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“…Palestinians held Egyptian travel documents (El-Abed, n.d). Nasser was one of the few Arab leaders who deeply cared about Palestine which made him to be considered a hero among the Palestinians.According toEl-Abed (2005), after Jamal Abdel-Nasser became president of Egypt in 1954, Palestinians were allowed to work in trade, industry, and transport between Gaza and Egypt. As a result, when the 1967 war occurred, they settled in Egypt due to the professional networks they had established.…”

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“…Nasser's implemented policies "welcomed Palestinians and treated them as if they were Egyptian nationals" (p.17).However, after the era of Nasser and specifically in 1978, laws and regulations were amended to treat Palestinians as foreigners. The regulations created as a result of both the Camp David Peace Accords, which Egypt signed with Israel, and the killing of the Egyptian Minister of Culture by a Palestinian group(El-Abed, 2005). Palestinians' rights to free education, employment and even residency were taken away from them.…”

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“…Palestinians' rights to free education, employment and even residency were taken away from them. In addition, they lost their rights to public services(El-Abed, 2005). When a Palestinian commits a crime, Palestinians as a group find themselves in a situation where they have to pay the price of the crime.…”

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Humanitarian Dilemmas for the Palestinian Refugees & the Question of Return

Smoum¹

2021

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This paper examines the situation of Palestinian refugees who have been living in Arab host countries as a result of the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli wars. Although their right of return was recognized by the UN Commission on Human Rights, 7 million refugees and 450,000 internally displaced Palestinians continue to live under unfavourable conditions, constituting about seventy percent of the entire Palestinian population worldwide (10.1 million) (BADIL, n.d, para1). During the refugee experience, Palestinians have suffered from all kinds of human rights violations in different countries. However, they considered the denial of their right of return as the most significant source of grievance. The right of return has become a major political goal and mobilizing influence of Palestinian nationalism. In this paper, I will use Iraq as a case study to demonstrate the continued instability and discrimination that Palestinians face in host countries and difficulties for stable settlement in exile. The experience of Palestinian refugees in Iraq between 1948 and 2008 indicates that even in countries where Palestinian refugees had seemingly favourable conditions, changes in political climate and their lack of citizenship rights make life in exile a perilous experience. Recognizing the issue of return as a legal and political matter, I will argue in this paper that based on the Palestinian refugees’ experience in various Arab host countries, securing the right of return should also be seen as a viable humanitarian solution. In the case of Palestinian refugees from and in Iraq, the right of return should be considered an emergency measure.

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2021

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“…Despite residing in Jordan and receiving Jordanian passports since 1968 (El‐Abed, 2004), the ex‐Gazans do not have a right to these temporary passports in law (Frost, 2020a). 2 In addition, few rights are connected to them in published legislation.…”

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“Formalizing rights: The case for linking legal rights to noncitizen statuses in Jordan”

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2021

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How can Jordan's experiences hosting Palestinian refugees inform policymaking toward Syrian refugees? As the 10-year anniversary of the Syrian uprisings approaches, Syrian refugees remain displaced with limited opportunities for repatriation, resettlement, or naturalization. Although there are many important differences between Syrian and Palestinian refugees-particularly Syrians' right to a sovereign state's nationality-there are increasing similarities between these two protracted refugee groups.One of the most critical among these similarities is holding ambiguous membership statuses in Jordan, where groups hold more rights than other non-Jordanians but fewer rights than Jordanian citizens. The experiences of noncitizen Palestinian refugees, such as those who fled to Jordan from the Gaza Strip after the 1967 war, highlight the destructive precarities that accompany an absence of legal rights, including insecure access to work, education, and healthcare. These experiences suggest that securing some Syrian rights in law can help mitigate the precarity of sustained refugee status. Further, Jordan has expressed a willingness to provide legal rights to some noncitizen groups, including investors and the children of Jordanian women and non-Jordanian men. Overall, formalizing critical, less politicized rights in law is one tangible way to improve the daily lives of Syrian, as well as other, protracted refugees.

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Citizenship and statelessness in Africa: the law and politics of belonging

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Palestinian Refugees of Egypt: What Exit Options Are Left for Them?

Cited by 4 publications

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Humanitarian Dilemmas for the Palestinian Refugees & the Question of Return

Humanitarian Dilemmas for the Palestinian Refugees & the Question of Return

“Formalizing rights: The case for linking legal rights to noncitizen statuses in Jordan”

Citizenship and statelessness in Africa: the law and politics of belonging

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