About Lauren Banko

Lauren Banko is a PhD history candidate completing her dissertation at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.  Her research is on both the British legislative context of citizenship and nationality in the Palestine Mandate during the first two decades of British administration, and Palestinian Arab popular discourses, notions and behaviours of citizenship and nationality in that territory.  

Articles by Lauren Banko

The creation of Palestinian citizenship under an international mandate: 1918-1925

An internationally-recognised citizenship of the Arab Middle East designed during the era of mandates by the British came out of exclusively colonial processes, despite the fact that the British were meant to be an international trustee in Palestine.  This article explores what happened.

This week's guest editors

openGlobalRights editors

Our guest editors James Ron, Leslie Vinjamuri, Sophie Arie and Archana Pandya introduce this week's theme of:

Emerging powers and human rights.

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