Confronting the Occupation : work, education, and political activism of Palestinian families in a refugee camp / Maya Rosenfeld.

Pt. 1. Occupation, day wage labor, and family life in Dheisheh -- 1. Israeli occupation : the systemic context -- 2. Dheishehians and day wage labor in Israel and the West Bank -- 3. Socioeconomic relationships in the households of day wage laborers -- Pt. 2. Occupation, education, employment, and family life in Dheisheh -- 4. Acquisition of education by Dheishehian refugees : understanding the structural context -- 5. The human factor : higher education in Dheisheh as a family project -- 6. Circumscribed avenues for mobility : Dheishehians with tertiary education in the local and regional labor markest -- 7. Professional employment, labor migration, and the multigenerational family in Dheisheh -- Pt. 3. Occupation, political imprisonment, politicization, and family life in Dheisheh -- 8. The Palestinian National Movement in the Occupied Territories -- 9. A multilayered history of political activists and prisoners in Dheisheh -- 10. The organized struggle of Palestinian political prisoners and its influence on the politicization of Dheishehian activists -- 11. Organizing around political prisoners : the politicization of family life -- 12. Prisoners return home -- A retrospective overview.

Presented as the author's doctoral thesis, University of California, Berkeley.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-365) and index.