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In this paper, I first argue that, since the British mandate, citizenship regulations in Palestine contributed to dispossession of the rights of Palestinians, thus preparing for the Palestinian refugee problem and eventually its consolidation. I then argue that citizenship regulations in host countries were exclusionary towards refugees in general, and Palestinians in particular, making it impossible for Palestinians to integrate in host societies. The so-called "Arab Spring" did not bring about any change in that sense. Finally, I argue that the narrative of statehood, although often separated from that of the "right of return", constitutes but one narrative, and one at a completely different angle than the narrative of a "right of return", where the 'just solution' creates to the possibility of establishing a homeland for Palestinians where they, and in particular the stateless refugees, can be converted into full citizens. What was part of the problem for refugees is presented as part of the solution. This discussion is very important in today's Palestine that was just recently accepted at the UN General Assembly as a non-member observer state. The importance of that move is the official Palestinian insistence on the need of a state on the 1967 borders, and the willingness to accept the formula of a two state solution. Discussion related to citizenship and refugee status, and the right of return, are all back to the center of political and legal discussions.

From the refugee camps in Lebanon to the relative prosperity of life in the USA, the Palestinian diaspora has been dispersed across the world. In this pioneering study, Helena Lindholm Schulz examines the ways in which Palestinian identity has been formed in the diaspora through constant longing for a homeland lost. In so doing, the author advances the debate on the relationship between diaspora and the creation of national identity as well as on nationalist politics tied to a particular territory. But The Palestinian Diaspora also sheds light on the possibilities opened up by a transnational

Unlike its demands for Holocaust reparations, Israel's compensation claims for properties that Jews left behind in the Arab world have aimed not to provide individual financial reparations, but rather to counter and offset Palestinian refugees' claims for restitution and the right of return. In U.S.-sponsored negotiations in 2000, Israel announced it would drop its counterclaim policy and agreed with the Palestinians that individual compensation would be paid out to all sides from an international fund. More recently, however, a new counterclaim strategy has emerged, based not on financial reparations, but rather on an argument that a fair population and property exchange occurred in 1948. By pursuing this strategy, Israel and international Jewish organizations risk exacerbating tensions between European Jews who have received Holocaust reparations, and Arab Jews angry that their claims are held hostage to diplomatic expediency.

When the UN Relief & Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was established it was only intended to offer a temporary solution, not one that would last for 58 years. Adapted from the source document.

I: Evolving Israeli policies and indigenous resistance -- Present absentees and indigenous resistance / Nur Masalha -- The state of Israel versus the Palestinian internal refugees / Hillel Cohen -- Patterns of internal displacement, social adjustment and the challenge of return / Nihad Boqa'i -- Forced sedentarisation, land rights and indigenous resistance: the Palestinian Bedouin in the Negev / Isma'el Abu-sa'ad -- II: Palestinian oral history and memory -- "A muted sort of grief": tales of refuge in Nazareth (1948-2005) / Isabelle Humphries -- Kafr Bir'im / William Dalrymple -- The Nakba, oral history and the Palestinian peasantry: the case of Lubya / Mahmoud 'Issa -- Unrecognised villages: indigenous 'Ayn Hawd versus artists' colony 'Ein Hod / Jonathan Cook -- The Nakba in Hebrew: Israeli-Jewish awareness of the Palestinian catastrophe and internal refugees / Eitan Bronstein -- III: Human rights and international protection -- The real road map to peace: international dimensions of the internal refugee question / Ilan Pappe -- International protection and durable solutions / Terry Rempel.