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The invention of Palestinian citizenship, 1918-1947

Title

The invention of Palestinian citizenship, 1918-1947 / Lauren Banko.

Author

Banko, Lauren

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description

ix, 278 pages; 24 cm

Summary

In the two decades after the First World War, nationality and citizenship in Palestine became less like abstract concepts for the Arab population and more like meaningful statuses integrated into political, social and civil life and as markers of civic identity in a changing society. This book situates the evolution of citizenship at the centre of state formation under the quasi-colonial mandate administration in Palestine. It emphasises the ways in which British officials crafted citizenship to be separate from nationality based on prior colonial legislation elsewhere, a view of the territory as divided communally, and the need to offer Jewish immigrants the easiest path to acquisition of Palestinian citizenship in order to uphold the mandate's policy. In parallel, the book examines the reactions of the Arab population to their new status. It argues that the Arabs relied heavily on their pre-war experience as nationals of the Ottoman Empire to negotiate the definitions and meanings of mandate citizenship.

Subject

Note

This monograph came out of a PhD thesis, submitted to the History Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London"--Page vii.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-272) and index.

Contents

Inventing the national and citizen in Palestine : Great Britain, sovereignty and the legislative context, 1918-1925 -- The notion of 'rights' and the practices of nationality and citizenship from the Palestinian Arab perspective, 1918-1925 -- The diaspora and the meanings of Palestinian citizenship, 1925-1931 -- Institutionalising citizenship : creating distinctions between Arab and Jewish Palestinian citizens, 1926-1934 -- Whose rights to citizenship? Expressions and variations of Palestinian mandate citizenship, 1926-1935 -- The Palestine revolt and stalled citizenship -- Conclusion. The end of the experiment : discourses on citizenship at the close of the mandate.

ISBN

9781474415507
1474415504
9781474415514
1474415512
9781474415521
1474415520

LCCN

2016288254

OCLC

ocn936009567
936009567
SCSB-14497293

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library