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Lauren Banko
University of Manchester
Occupation
Researcher
Contact
Email: lauren.banko@manchester.ac.uk
Department of History, University of Manchester
Samuel Alexander Building, Oxford Road
Manchester M13
United Kingdom
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Palestinian Studies
Transnationalism
Middle East/Near East Studies
History Of Medicine
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arab States
Palestine
Specialties
I Work On Borders, Borderlands, Frontiers, Migration, Deportation, Clandestine Mobilities, And The Border/mobility Control Regime With A Focus On Transregional Migrants To And From Palestine.
I Currently Have A 3 Year Research Fellowship With The Wellcome Trust, Titled 'Medical Deportees: Narrations And Pathographies Of Health At The Borders Of Great Britain, Egypt, And Palestine,
I Also Work On Refugee History, Histories Of Displacement, And Documentary Identity.
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2014 | History | School of Oriental and African Studies
MA | 2009 | History | University of Louisville
BA | 2007 | Hist | Slippery Rock U of Pennsylvania
Abstracts
The 'Invention' of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918-1926: Discourses and Practices Nationality, Citizenship and Rights: Palestinian Counterdiscourses and Practices, 1920-1930 “The Marvel of Palestinian Nationality”: Negotiating nationality, citizenship and colonial borders in mandate Palestine “Masquerading as refugees”: the absence of the refugee in interwar Palestine Laboring across the Medico-Legal Border: Working-Class Migrants, Illness, and Immigration Control between Palestine and Egypt, 1930-1948