Francesca P. Albanese is an Affiliate Researcher with the Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM). Before dedicating herself to this book writing, she worked as a Legal Officer for the Department of Legal Affairs of UNRWA, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights before then. A law graduate from the University of Pisa, Francesca holds an LLM in Human Rights at SOAS, University of London.

Lex Takkenberg has worked with UNRWA since 1989. He is the former Chief of the Ethics Office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Prior to that, he held positions including General Counsel / Director, Department of Legal Affairs, Director of Operations / Operational Support, and (Deputy) Field Director in Gaza and Syria. Before joining UNRWA, he was the Legal Officer of the Dutch Refugee Council for six years. A law graduate from the University of Amsterdam, he obtained a Doctorate in International Law from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

• Introduction


• PART ONE: Historical and legal foundations


• 1: An historical overview of the Palestinian refugee question


• 2: Palestinian refugees: a distinctive normative and institutional regime


• 3: On the application of international law to Palestinian refugees


• PART TWO: Seventy years of exile: Palestinian refugees around the world


• 4: The status of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East and North Africa: unpacking an unsettling solidarity


• 5: Palestinian 'diaspora' in Europe, the Americans, Asia-Pacific, and Africa


• PART THREE: Protection and solutions


• 6: Focusing on specific rights


• 7: Protection of Palestinian refugees


• 8: The quest for solutions