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The Palestinian refugee problem is one of the longest-lasting refugee crises in the world——now exceeding fifty-three years——without a real solution in sight. Although at its core a political problem, the Palestinian refugee crisis is also a problem of legal distortion: Palestinian refugees fall into a legal lacuna that sets them outside minimal international protections available for all other refugee groups in the world. This paper provides background to the legal anomaly that sets Palestinian refugees apart; discusses the legal, practical, and political implications of that status; and proposes a framework and mechanisms aimed at promoting a rights-based solution for the Palestinian refugee problem.

This book focuses on the common features of protracted refugee situations. It is a critical examination of the reasons underlying the extended nature of those crises, as well as potential solutions to them. The book addresses war and armed conflict, environmental change and natural disasters, statelessness and protection gaps, among other elements, as common origins of refugee crises. It analyzes the root causes of some of the longest-standing unresolved refugee situations in the world today

A multidisciplinary group of scholars examines how the actions of the United States as a global leader are worsening pressures on people worldwide to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights. Uniting such diverse issues as market reform, drug policy, and terrorism under a common framework of human rights, the book constitutes a call for a new vision on immigration

1. Hani A. Faris: Introduction: The Failure of the Two-State Solution and Delimiting the One-State Idea 1. - Part I: Is the Two-State Settlement Feasible?. - 2. Virginia Tilley: The Deeper Politics of Jewish Settlements 17 . - 3. Saree Makdisi: A Racialised Space: The Future of Jerusalem 35. - 4. Husam Said Zomlot: Building a Palestinian State Under Occupation: Reassessing the Oslo Process 47. - 5. Naseer H. Aruri: Is the Two-State Settlement Still Viable? An Overall Assessment of the Present Situation 63. - 6. Nancy Murray: Israel's War on Gaza: Zionism's Pyrrhic Victory? 83. - Part II: Ideologies and the Idea of a Historic Settlement. - 7. Gabriel Piterberg: Deconstructing the Zionist Settler Narrative and Constructing an Alternative 113. - 8. Marc H. Ellis: In the Golden Age of Constantinian Judaism: The Future of the Indigenous Jewish Prophetic: Israel, Ethnic Particularism and Universalist Values 130. - 9. Ali Abunimah: Challenging the Consensus Favouring the Two-State Model 146. - 10. Ilan Pappé: A Blueprint for a One-State Movement: A Troubled History 155. - Part III: Practicalities in the Search for a Resolution of the Conflict. - 11. Susan M. Akram: The Rights of Palestinian Refugees and Territorial Solutions in Historic Palestine 171. - 12. Salman H. Abu Sitta: The Geographic and Demographic Imperatives of a Single State 185. - 13. Smadar Lavie: Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine: Two States or One? 207. - Part IV: Mobilising for a Solution. - 14. George E. Bisharat: Mobilising Palestinians in Support of One State 231. - 15. Norton Mezvinsky: Mobilising Israel and the World Jewry for the One-State Solution 248. - 16. As'ad Ghanem: Palestinians in Israel and Binationalism: Escape from the Impasse 257. - 17. Nadia Hijab: Reversing Defeat Through Non-violent Power 269. - 18. Leila Farsakh: Building Movements for the One-State Solution in Palestine and the Arab World 281. - 19. Joel Kovel: Awakening the American Conscience about Israel/Palestine 297. - 20. Ghada Karmi: Building an International Movement to Promote the One-State Solution 309