Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age

Name: Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age
Start: 2022-03-02T16:30:00-0500
End: 2022-03-02T17:45:00-0500

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Nadya Hajj, Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought and Co-Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Wellesley College, will discuss her latest book, Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age.

Date: Wed, Mar 2, 2022 Time: 04:30pm - 05:45pm Location: Online

Almost 68.5 million refugees in the world today live in a protection gap, the chasm between protections stipulated in the Geneva Convention and the abrogation of those responsibilities by states and aid agencies. With dwindling humanitarian aid, how do refugee communities solve collective dilemmas, like raising funds for funeral services, or securing other critical goods and services? Nadya Hajj, Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought and Co-Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Wellesley College, will discuss her research on this question as detailed in her latest book, Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age.

This event will be moderated by MEI Faculty Director Tarek Masoud.

Nadya Hajj is the Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought and the Co-Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Wellesley College. She studies how marginalized communities, specifically Palestinian refugees, develop cooperative strategies to solve collective dilemmas in suboptimal conditions. Her first book, Protection Amid Chaos: The Creation of Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps, was published by Columbia University Press in 2016. Her second book, Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age, was published by the University of California Press in October 2021.