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Author Bawalsa, Nadim, author.

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

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.8927 BAW    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 276 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Series Worlding the Middle East
Worlding the Middle East.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index.
Contents 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.
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.
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.
Palestine -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Latin America -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Citizenship (OCoLC)fst00861909
Emigration and immigration (OCoLC)fst00908690
Palestinian Arabs (OCoLC)fst01051590
Palestinian Arabs -- Ethnic identity (OCoLC)fst01051605
Palestinian Arabs -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst01051615
Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01051620
Latin America (OCoLC)fst01245945
Middle East -- Palestine (OCoLC)fst01207534
Palestinian Arabs -- Latin America -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Palestinian Arabs -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
Citizenship -- Eretz Israel -- History -- 20th century.
Palestinian Arabs -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Eretz Israel -- History -- 20th century.
Palestinian Arabs -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century.
Transnationalism -- Political aspects -- Eretz Israel -- History -- 20th century.
Eretz Israel -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Latin America -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Bawalsa, Nadim. Transnational Palestine Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022] 9781503632271 (DLC) 2022004002
ISBN 9781503629110 (cloth)
1503629112
9781503632264 (paperback)
1503632261
9781503632271 (ebook)
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