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Borders often have effects on families’ intimate lives. In this presentation, the focus will be on how the Israeli military occupation re-draws borders and influences Palestinian family life, through a legal framework of family reunification, a complex ID card regime and restricted mobility. Boundaries and hierarchical social taxonomies are established between Palestinians and within Palestinian families -people who identify as belonging to the same society but who hold different legal statuses and different rights.

In Palestinian society, people are traditionally patrilocal i.e. newly married couples establish their household close to the husband’s family. However, in the present situation, many families whose members hold different legal statuses increasingly adjust their living arrangement to the legal framework mentioned above, which threatens earlier ways of doing kin. This shapes people’s ability and sometimes willingness to uphold moral obligations to their family at the other side of the ‘border.’

Nina Gren  is a senior lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, Lund University. Her research focuses on refugees and politics. She is interested in different forms of violence, resilience in conflict situations, collective memory, gender and diasporic relations. She has fieldwork experience from the Palestinian territories and from Denmark and Sweden. A recent publication together with Dalia Abdelhady and Martin Joormann is Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe at Manchester University Press.

Hybrid Seminar

The talk is held at CMES, Finngatan 16 in Lund. If you are not able to attend in-person, there is an option to attend via Zoom. Please register here for Zoom attendance: https://lu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ypde6oqzojGtGEyeXkD714Ieows6aLT0Zz

This event is part of the spring 2023 CMES seminar series. For more information see the full program.