CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Elian, Dena Nawaf |
|---|---|
| Title | Non-citizen: How the threat of residency revocation affects the rights of Palestinian women in Jerusalem |
| Summary | This thesis examines the affect that Israeli policies discriminatorily applied to Palestinian permanent residents of East Jerusalem have on Palestinian women. One policy in particular—the “center of life” policy— places the burden of proof on Palestinian residents of Jerusalem to regularly demonstrate to the Israeli Ministry of Interior that Jerusalem is indeed their “center of life.” Failure to do so could result in the revocation of their permanent residency status—the legal status granted to Palestinian Jerusalemites in place of a binding citizenship—rendering them stateless. While this policy has legitimate human rights consequences for the affected Palestinian population as a whole, women are forced to confront these same shared challenges in addition to the threats posed to their unique rights as women. Through interviews, this study aims to demonstrate how lacking full citizenship interferes with how Palestinian women in Jerusalem access their rights to employment, education, and marriage. |
| Supervisor | Lyer, Kirsten Roberts |
| Department | School of Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/elian_dena.pdf |
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