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Networked Refugees Book Celebration

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Sponsor
Department of Asian American Studies and the Critical Refugee Studies Collective
Virtual
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Date
Feb 9, 2022   2:00 pm  
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Asian American Studies

Please join us for a virtual book celebration for Professor Nadya Hajj

Wednesday, February 9, 2022
2pm CST

Discussants: Professor Isis Nusaid (Denison) & Professor Lila Sharif (UIUC)

Register via Zoom: https://go.illinois.edu/NetworkedRefugees

Book: Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age

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 Palestinian refugees develop cooperative strategies to sole 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.

Sponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies and the Critical Refugee Studies Collective. Hosted by AAS 561: Race and Cultural Critique. Networked Refugees is an open access book and is part of the Critical Refugee Studies Book Series published by the University of California Press.

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