{"id":65436,"date":"2016-03-05T19:50:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/on-the-threshold-of-statelessness-palestinian-narratives-of-loss-and-erasure\/"},"modified":"2016-03-05T19:50:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T17:50:45","slug":"on-the-threshold-of-statelessness-palestinian-narratives-of-loss-and-erasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/on-the-threshold-of-statelessness-palestinian-narratives-of-loss-and-erasure\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Threshold of Statelessness: Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/london.eventful.com\/events\/threshold-statelessness-palestinian-narrati-\/E0-001-089771495-9?utm_source=apis&#038;utm_medium=apim&#038;utm_campaign=apic\" rel=\"nofollow\">On the Threshold of Statelessness: Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>A South Africa Event on 2016-03-16 00:00:00<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Threshold of Statelessness: Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure<\/strong> <br \/><strong>Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (UCL)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 16 March 2016<strong>Time:<\/strong> 5:00 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finishes:<\/strong> 16 March 2016<strong>Time:<\/strong> 7:00 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Russell Square: College Buildings<strong>Room:<\/strong> G52<\/p>\n<p><strong>Type of Event:<\/strong> Seminar<\/p>\n<p><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/migrationdiaspora\/seminarsevents\/seminarseries\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Seminar Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This seminar\u00a0examines how Palestinians living\u00a0in France, Sweden and the UK negotiate, mobilise and\/or resist, and ultimately problematise, notions of statelessness as a concept and as a marker of identity. Centralising Palestinians\u2019 conceptualisations in this manner \u2013 including accounts which directly challenge academics\u2019 and policy-makers\u2019 definitions of the problem of, and solution to, statelessness &#8211; is particularly important given that statelessness emerges as both a condition and a label which erase the ability to speak, and be heard. The article draws on the narratives of 46 Palestinians to examine perceptions of statelessness as a marker of rightlessess, home(land)lessness and voicelessness. It then explores statelessness through the paradigm of the \u2018threshold\u2019, reflecting both on interviewees\u2019 ambiguity towards this label, status and condition, and the extent to which even Palestinians who hold citizenship remain \u2018on the threshold of statelessness\u2019. It concludes by reflecting on interviewees\u2019 rejection of a label which is imposed upon them \u2018from a distance\u2019 via bureaucratic processes which reproduce, rather than redress, processes of erasure and dispossession.<strong>About the speaker<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is Lecturer in Human Geography, Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit, and the coordinator of the Refuge in a Moving World research network at University College London. Her research examines experiences of, and responses to, conflict-induced displacement and statelessness with a particular focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Her recent publications include <em>The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival<\/em> (Syracuse University Press, 2014), <em>The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2014), and <em>South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development: Views from the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East<\/em> (Routledge, 2015).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organiser:<\/strong> Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact email:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:cb92@soas.ac.uk\" rel=\"nofollow\">cb92@soas.ac.uk<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/london.eventful.com\/venues\/soas-\/V0-001-004105767-5?utm_source=apis&#038;utm_medium=apim&#038;utm_campaign=apic\" rel=\"nofollow\">SOAS<\/a><br \/>\nSCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES<br \/>\nCity of London, United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\">Add your <em>South Africa<\/em> event for free here<\/a> on MyZA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Threshold of Statelessness: Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure A South Africa Event on 2016-03-16 00:00:00 On the Threshold of Statelessness: Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (UCL) Date: 16 March 2016Time: 5:00 PM Finishes: 16 March 2016Time: 7:00 PM Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: G52 Type of Event: Seminar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9840],"tags":[10999,4726,12314,12313,12312,12311],"class_list":{"0":"post-65436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-eventful","7":"tag-erasure","8":"tag-loss","9":"tag-narratives","10":"tag-palestinian","11":"tag-statelessness","12":"tag-threshold","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}