INTRODUCTION Scales and Geographies of Contention, Containment, and Mobilization

This second special issue complements the first one by showing how UNRWA sources can be used to retrieve, first of all, aspects of Palestinian refugee political history and, secondly, the role played by UNRWA in the making of regional and international politics on a more systemic level. In fact, it situates UNRWA at the crossroads of multiple political scales, ranging from the bottom-up perspective of the camps to the regional and international levels.