Unfree in Palestine

Nadia Abu-Zahra is Assistant Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Ottawa. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and has worked across the Middle East, Asia, and Central America. She is the author of 12 articles and book chapters on mobility in Palestine.Adah Kay was Honorary Visiting Professor at Cass Business School, City University, London. An anthropologist and urban planner, she worked in local government, universities and UK NGOs. During 2002-6 she lived and worked in the West Bank. She was the co-author of Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Children (Pluto, 2004).

'Nadia Abu-Zahra and Adah Kay have produced a remarkable document which describes, with disarming clarity and precision, the process of denationalisation that has been inflicted by the state of Israel on the Palestinians'

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction 1.1 Freedom and Unfreedom in Palestine1.2 Scantily-Documented Pass Systems1.3 Overview of the Book2. Registration and Denationalisation 2.1 The Census2.2 The Population Registry2.3 Feigning Authority2.4 Denationalisation3. Blacklists3.1 Paper Blacklists and Executions3.2 Blacklists as Hierarchies of Discrimination4. Coercion and Collaboration4.1 Withholding Rights as Coercion4.2 Trading Rights for Needs4.3 Informants and Collaborators5. Movement Restriction and Induced Transfer 5.1 Entrenching Movement Restrictions5.2 Induced Transfer5.3 Enhanced Movement for Colonists, Restricted Movement for Indigenous Palestinians6. The Health System6.1 Collapsing Public Health Structures6.2 Health System Shutdown7. Education7.1 Collapsing Education Structures7.2 Education System Shutdown8. Conclusion 8.1 Review of the Book8.2 Looking ForwardNotesIndex