Lauren Banko

Lauren Banko is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester. Her Wellcome research project focuses is titled 'Medical Deportees: narrations and pathographies of health at the borders of Great Britain, Palestine, and Egypt, 1919-1949.' With a PhD in Near and Middle East History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, she is a social historian specializing in 19th and 20th century Palestine, and the Arab Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. She is interested in how borders and mobility control regimes shape the social lives, livelihoods, health, and emotions of transregional migrants.

Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester.

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Research

Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship (2022-2025): Medical Deportees: narrations and pathographies of health at the borders of Great Britain, Egypt, and Palestine, 1919-1949

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Publications

Delve into my blog posts and articles where I delve into intriguing historical narratives, share research updates, and provide commentary on historical events.

Refugee Voices in Modern Global History. Reckoning with Refugeedom

Peter Gatrell, Katarzyna Nowak, Lauren Banko, and Anindita Ghoshal Adopts a global and comparative perspective to refugee history Combines the fields of refugee history and refugee studies Draws upon original unpublished archival material including letters and petitions authored by refugees

The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918-1947

Explores the colonial, social and political history of the creation of citizenship in mandate Palestine In the two decades after the First World War, nationality and citizenship in Palestine became less like abstract concepts for the Arab population and more like meaningful statuses integrated into political, social and civil life and as markers of civic identity in a changing society. This book situates the evolution of citizenship at the centre of state formation under the