Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

An Oppenheimer Chair Brown Bag Lunch Seminar with Roxane Caron.

Abstract

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, along with the exile of the Palestinians, has lasted for over 60 years. Lebanon, a host country for more than 425 000 Palestinian refugees, imposes a series of restrictions that prevents Palestinian refugees from fully exercising their rights. Moreover, there are very few possibilities for Palestinians to leave the country in order to improve their situation. Many Western countries have changed their migration policies since the early 2000s, which has led to greater control of borders and of the migrant population.

This seminar, based on the life stories of 42 Palestinian refugee women of Burj El Barajneh camp and participant observation conducted during fieldwork, will examine the effects of these conditions on the Palestinian refugees of Lebanon.

About the speaker.

Roxane Caron has a Masters in Social Work from Laval University and is currently a PhD candidate in the program of Applied Human Sciences at the University of Montreal. Recipient of a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship since 2009, her thesis explores the experience of exile of Palestinian refugee women in the Burj El Barajneh camp in Lebanon. From 1998 to 2006, she was a practitioner in Quebec and also in Kazakhstan as a volunteer for the international organization, Voluntary Services Overseas. Ms. Caron is interested in the realities of refugee women, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and human rights violations.