{"id":48206,"date":"2025-09-09T20:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=48206"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:24:12","slug":"nadim-bawalsa-transnational-palestine-migration-and-the-right-of-return-before-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=48206","title":{"rendered":"Nadim Bawalsa, \u201eTransnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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. <em>Transnational Palestine<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nadim Bawalsa considers the migrants&#8217; 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\u2014and the first articulation of a Palestinian right of return emerged well before 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nadim Bawalsa<\/strong> is a historian of modern Palestine. He holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern &amp; Islamic Studies from New York University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Award Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023: MESA Book Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winner of the 2023 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023: Palestine Book Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winner of the 2023 Palestine Book Awards in the Academic Category, sponsored by the Middle East Monitor (MEMO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>July 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>296 Pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/middle-east-studies\/transnational-palestine\">https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/middle-east-studies\/transnational-palestine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/33098.jpg?fit=640%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48208,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48206\/revisions\/48208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}