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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820021003321

Autore

Schulz Helena Lindholm

Titolo

The Palestinian diaspora : formation of identities and politics of homeland / / Helena Lindholm Schulz with Juliane Hammer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-134-49669-9

1-280-14174-3

0-203-98903-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Global Diasporas

Altri autori (Persone)

HammerJuliane

Disciplina

305.892/74

Soggetti

Palestinian Arabs - Politics and government - 20th century

National liberation movements - Palestine

National characteristics, Palestinian

Repatriation - Palestine

Refugees, Palestinian Arab

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Between nationalism and globalism -- Catastrophe and beyond -- Palestinians in the world -- Stateless, rootless, homeless : meanings of homeland in exile -- Resistance and return : the politics of homeland -- Right of return, the refugees and the collapse of the peace process -- New homes and identities in motion -- Coming home?

Sommario/riassunto

From the refugee camps of the Lebanon to the relative prosperity of life in the USA, the Palestinian diaspora has been dispersed across the world. In this pioneering study, Helena Lindholm Schulz examines the ways in which Palestinian identity has been formed in the diaspora through constant longing for a homeland lost. In so doing, the author advances the debate on the relationship between diaspora and the creation of national identity as well as on nationalist politics tied to a particular territory. But The Palestinian Diaspora also sheds light on the possibilities opened up by a t