Nadim Bawalsa <br/><br/>
Transnational Palestine:  Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 

 - xviii, 276 p.,  ill.;  23 cm 
 - Worlding the Middle East .
 - Worlding the Middle East .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781503632264 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government--Latin America--20th century<br/>Palestinian Arabs--History--Latin America--20th century<br/>Citizenship--History--Palestine--20th century<br/>Palestinian Arabs--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--Palestine--20th century<br/>Palestinian Arabs--Ethnic identity--History--20th century<br/>Transnationalism--Political aspects--History--Palestine--20th century
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Palestine--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century<br/>Latin America--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century