Palestinian Refugees: Host Countries, Legal Status and the Right of Return

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  • Wadie E. Said Debevoise & Plimpton

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21293

Keywords:

Palestinian refugees, law, legal status, precarity, right of retun

Abstract

Given the Palestinian refugees’ precarious legal status in their host countries, recognition of the Palestinian right of return is not only legally viable, but also crucial for the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. That racially driven demographic considerations have been employed up until now to derail binding and directly applicable laws and practices, as well as keep the refugees in a state of legal limbo in their host countries, cuts to the heart of the fundamental injustice currently plaguing the Middle East. No amount of obfuscating the facts and the law can tarnish the applicability and relevance of the right of return, and Palestinian refugees and their advocates remain in both a strong moral and legal position to continue to call for the recognition of that right.

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Published

2003-02-01

How to Cite

Said, W. E. (2003). Palestinian Refugees: Host Countries, Legal Status and the Right of Return. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 21(2), 89–95. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21293

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