The paper will present the preliminary results of a research project on how political contingencies and forms of sovereignties impinge upon refugees’ political cultures in three different Palestinian locations of displacement. The research is based on around 100 interviews, which were collected in Lebanon, the West Bank and Jordan between 2009 and 2010. In particular, I would like to investigate how Palestinian refuges reconcile the right of return with strategies of political and civil integration in the contexts in which they have been forced to live over 60 years ago. Palestinian refugees are urged to integrate (but not assimilate) and are producing political narratives, which see "integration" and "return" as compatible and desirable. It could be argued that they are envisaging post-national forms of membership, where camp identity, and access to civil and social rights are intertwined with return. However, narratives and practices that sustain this type of membership differ according to gender and generation. This paper, therefore, aims at deconstructing the notion of a homogeneous Palestinian experience of displacement, by prioritising gender and generation as key variables in shaping new creative political cultures and attitudes towards membership, integration and return.