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The Politics of Suffering: Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camps. Nell Gabiam, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2016, 208 pp.

The Politics of Suffering: Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camps. Nell Gabiam, Indiana: Indiana... City & Society Book Review The Politics of Suffering: Syria’s challenges of being a legal resident and Palestinian Refugee Camps. Nell refugee in Syria. In the Politics of Suffering, Gabiam, Indiana: Indiana University Gabiam complicates the work of Press, 2016, 208 pp. agencies like UNRWA that have adopted development work but where Faedah M. Totah the political reality of the people they Virginia Commonwealth University seek to help continues to determine the success of these projects. In The Politics of Suffering, Nell Gabiam The author conducted fieldwork in examines the impact of UNRWA’s three different refugee camps thereby transition from humanitarianism to illustrating how the space of the camp in development work on Palestinian Syria is not monolithic but varies from refugees in Syria. The move reflects one location to another and over time broader global trends among while still essential to shaping the humanitarian and relief agencies that Palestinian experience. She takes the have adopted neoliberal theory. reader from the dilapidated barracks However, project delivery is a highly housing Palestinians in Ein el Tal and charged endeavor, both politically and Neirab Camps to the multistory modern emotionally, in the Palestinian situation. apartment buildings in Yarmouk Camp, Gabiam provides http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

The Politics of Suffering: Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camps. Nell Gabiam, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2016, 208 pp.

City & Society , Volume 31 (1) – Apr 1, 2019

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"© 2019 by the American Anthropological Association"
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0893-0465
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1548-744X
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10.1111/ciso.12199
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City & Society Book Review The Politics of Suffering: Syria’s challenges of being a legal resident and Palestinian Refugee Camps. Nell refugee in Syria. In the Politics of Suffering, Gabiam, Indiana: Indiana University Gabiam complicates the work of Press, 2016, 208 pp. agencies like UNRWA that have adopted development work but where Faedah M. Totah the political reality of the people they Virginia Commonwealth University seek to help continues to determine the success of these projects. In The Politics of Suffering, Nell Gabiam The author conducted fieldwork in examines the impact of UNRWA’s three different refugee camps thereby transition from humanitarianism to illustrating how the space of the camp in development work on Palestinian Syria is not monolithic but varies from refugees in Syria. The move reflects one location to another and over time broader global trends among while still essential to shaping the humanitarian and relief agencies that Palestinian experience. She takes the have adopted neoliberal theory. reader from the dilapidated barracks However, project delivery is a highly housing Palestinians in Ein el Tal and charged endeavor, both politically and Neirab Camps to the multistory modern emotionally, in the Palestinian situation. apartment buildings in Yarmouk Camp, Gabiam provides

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