Table of Contents for Confronting the Occupation

Confronting the Occupation
Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp
Maya Rosenfeld
Table of Contents for Confronting the Occupation

Table of Contents for Confronting the Occupation

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: Occupation, Day Wage Labor, and Family Life in Dheisheh

Introduction

  1. Israeli Occupation: The Systemic Context
  2. Dheishehians and Day Wage Labor in Israel and the West Bank
  3. Socioeconomic Relationships in the Households of Day Wage Laborers
  4. Part Two: Occupation, Education, Employment, and Family Life in Dheisheh

    Introduction

  5. Acquisition of Education by Dheishehian Refugees: Understanding the Structural Context
  6. The Human Factor: Higher Education in Dheisheh as a Family Project
  7. Circumscribed Avenues for Mobility: Dheishehians with Tertiary Education in the Local and Regional Labor Markets
  8. Professional Employment, Labor Migration, and the Multigenerational Family in Dheisheh
  9. Part Three: Occupation, Political Imprisonment, Politicization, and Family Life in Dheisheh

    Introduction

  10. The Palestinian National Movement in the Occupied Territories
  11. A Multilayered History of Political Activists and Prisoners in Dheisheh
  12. The Organized Struggle of Palestinian Political Prisoners and Its Influence on the Politicization of Dheishehian Activists
  13. Organizing Around Political Prisoners: The Politicization of Family Life
  14. Prisoners Return Home

A Retrospective Overview

Notes

Bibliography

Index

14 pages of photographs

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