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East Jerusalem today has become a space populated by “migrants in suspension.” The major group is composed of approximately 50,000 residents who have been left on the Palestinian side of the Separation Wall but are still within the official municipal boundaries of the Jerusalem. These individuals have crossed over to the Israeli side out of fear that Israel might transfer this liminal space to the Palestinian Authority and consequently revoke their legal residency. This anomalous situation is the direct result of the struggle for space as Israel attempts to “Israelize” it, and the Palestinians struggle to preserve their rights to reside in it.
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Tim Cresswell, On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (New York: Routledge, 2006), 31.
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Ernest Renan, “What Is a Nation” (Paris: Presses-Pocket, 1992). Originally a lecture delivered at the Sorbonne.
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Alexander Betts, Forced Migrations and Global Politics (UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 2.
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Ibid., 7.
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Saskia Sassen, Immigrants and Citizens (Spain: Siglo XXI Editores, 2013), 183.
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Tim Cresswell, On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (New York: Routledge, 2006) 47.
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Kaavya Asoka & Michelle Chen, “From the Margins,” Dissent, Quarterly of the Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas, Spring 2015, 18.
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Alexander Betts, Forced Migrations and Global Politics (UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 11.
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This “materialist” explanation undermines the ideological explanation of the concept of sumud (steadfastness), the idea that Palestinians cling to the land purely for ideological/political reasons. While sumud might indeed play a role, economic factors cannot be dismissed.
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Tim Cresswell, On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (New York: Routledge, 2006).
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Atun vs The Ministry of Interior, file Number I’im- 1966\09, before judges Beinitz, Gronich and Levi, 22 November 2011.
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Mohammad Nabulsi vs The Ministry of Interior, file number 119473-10-13, before Judge Nava Ben-Or, 26 December 2013.
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Meir Margalit, Demolishing Peace: House Demolitions in East Jerusalem 2000–2010, 2014, International Peace and Cooperation Center (IPCC).
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Bulent Diken & Carsten Laustsen, The Culture of Exception: Sociology Facing the Camp (New York: Routledge, 2005).
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Margalit, M. (2019). Silent Forced Migrations in Twenty-First-Century Jerusalem. In: Linhard, T., Parsons, T.H. (eds) Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77956-0_9
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