Title Transnational Palestine : migration and the right of return before 1948 / Nadim Bawalsa

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource Series Worlding the Middle East Worlding the Middle East. Contents Introduction -- Palestinians settle the American mahjar -- The tradition of transnational “pro-Palestina” activism -- The 1925 Palestinian Citizenship Order-in-Council -- Mexico’s Palestinians take on Britain’s interwar empire -- The Chilean Arabic press and the story of Palestinos-Chilenos -- Bringing the right of return home to Palestine -- Conclusion Summary "Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. By 1936, an estimated 40,000 Palestinians lived outside geographic Palestine. Transnational Palestine is the first book to explore the history of Palestinian immigration to Latin America, the struggles Palestinian migrants faced to secure Palestinian citizenship in the interwar period, and the ways in which these challenges contributed to the formation of a Palestinian diaspora and to the emergence of Palestinian national consciousness. Nadim Bawalsa considers the migrants' strategies for economic success in the diaspora, for preserving their heritage, and for resisting British mandate legislation, including citizenship rejections meted out to thousands of Palestinian migrants. They did this in newspapers, social and cultural clubs and associations, political organizations and committees, and in hundreds of petitions and pleas delivered to local and international governing bodies demanding justice for Palestinian migrants barred from Palestinian citizenship. As this book shows, Palestinian political consciousness developed as a thoroughly transnational process in the first half of the twentieth century -- and the first articulation of a Palestinian right of return emerged well before 1948."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2022) Subject Palestinian Arabs -- Latin America -- Politics and government -- 20th century Palestinian Arabs -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century Citizenship -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century Palestinian Arabs -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century Palestinian Arabs -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century Transnationalism -- Political aspects -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century Citizenship Emigration and immigration Palestinian Arabs Palestinian Arabs -- Ethnic identity Palestinian Arabs -- Legal status, laws, etc. Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government SUBJECT Palestine -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century Latin America -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century Subject Latin America Middle East -- Palestine Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022004002 ISBN 9781503632271 150363227X

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