This book spans a significant part of our working life—both of us have carried extensive ethnographic work in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), covering Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem over a number of years.
Michelle Pace and Somdeep Sen
Michelle Pace is Professor with special responsibilities in EU-MENA relations at Roskilde University’s Department of Social Sciences and Business. She is also Honorary Professor in Politics and International Studies at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Her research areas of interest include memory studies, emotions in international relations, and migration studies.
Somdeep Sen is a postdoctoral researcher at Roskilde University. His research centers on spatial politics, settler colonialism, postcolonialism, and migration in the Middle East and Europe. He has published on the Israeli–Palestinian “conflict” and co-edited a volume on Syrian refugee children’s journeys in exile (Routledge, 2018).