Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Refugees Together and Citizens Apart ethnographically foregrounds the experiences and reflections of dispossessed Palestinians to examine the differentiated coercive control through which the Israeli settler colonial state reproduces the violent dismemberment of the Palestinian body politic. With a focus on two Palestinian localities of marginality across the Green Line between the Israeli state and the occupied West Bank, the book undertakes a comparative analysis of how two populations of poor Palestinians negotiate and seek to resist distinct forms of coercive control and argues that differences in how coercive control is exercised, by whom, and against whom matter for how dispossessed Palestinians (re)build affective and political worlds, articulate their situated struggles and strive to reconnect politically. Specifically, based on a long-term, multisited ethnography, the book traces the bifurcated history and structure of displacement and coercive control that connects the segregated Palestinian poor living in Lyd (Arabic: Al-Lidd; Hebrew: Lod), an Israeli city, and Palestinian refugees who were expelled from the Lyd area by the Israeli army in 1948 and now live in Jalazone, a refugee camp in the adjacent West Bank. It compares these two populations’ relationships with different configurations of the Israeli security state and, for the refugees, with international humanitarian organizations. It focuses on their emotional and political lives while also studying their feelings and perceptions of each other. By doing so, the book illuminates how the violent dismemberment of the Palestinian body politic is reproduced and collective liberation articulated at the Palestinian margins.</jats:p>