Includes bibliographies and index

1. Introduction: Refugee repatriation, development, and the challenges of Palestinian state-building / Rex Brynen and Roula El-Rifai -- Statistical data on Palestinian refugees: what we know and what we don't ?/ Hasan Abu-Libdeh -- 3. Living in provisional normality: the living conditions of Palestinian refugees in the host countries of the Middle East / Jon Hanssen-Bauer and Laurie Blome Jacobsen -- 4. Social capital, transnational kinship and refugee repatriation process: some elements for a Palestinian sociology of return / Sari Hanafi -- 5. The return of Palestinian refugees and displaced persons: the evolution of a European Union policy on the Middle East Peace Process / Mick Dumper -- 6. Refugees, repatriation, and development: some lessons from recent work / Rex Brynen -- 7. Planning in support of negotiations: the refugee issue / Khalil Nijem -- 8. Infrastructure scenarios for refugees and displaced persons / Nick Krafft and Ann Elwan -- 9. Land and housing strategies for immigrant absorption: lessons from the Israeli experience / Rachelle Alterman -- 10. Israeli settlements and the Palestinian refugee question: evaluating the prospects and implications of settlement evacuation in the West Bank and Gaza - a preliminary analysis / Geoffrey Aronson and Jan de Jong