The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918-1947 / / Lauren Banko.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Banko, Lauren,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Explores the colonial, social and political history of the creation of citizenship in mandate PalestineIn 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.Key featuresCovers the overlapping social, administrative and political eras in the creation of Palestinian citizenship, from the final decades of the Ottoman imperial age through the first two decades of the mandateExplores a transitional period in Palestine's history that has seen little nuanced historical researchPlaces the development of the changing status of citizenship in mandate Palestine in its historical contextApproaches the 'invention' of citizenship in Palestine through a number of frameworks: the wider British imperial project, the development of Arab populist politics and civil society, and the circulation of ideas to and from the Palestinian Arab diasporaIncorporates a number of under-used and un-used Arabic press and other documentary sources

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Inventing the National and the Citizen in Palestine: Great Britain, Sovereignty and the Legislative Context, 1918-1925 -- 3. The Notion of 'Rights' and the Practices of Nationality and Citizenship from the Palestinian Arab Perspective, 1918-1925 -- 4. The Diaspora and the Meanings of Palestinian Citizenship, 1925-1931 -- 5. Institutionalising Citizenship: Creating Distinctions between Arab and Jewish Palestinian Citizens, 1926-1934 -- 6. Whose Rights to Citizenship? Expressions and Variations of Palestinian Mandate Citizenship, 1926-1935 -- 7. The Palestine Revolt and Stalled Citizenship -- 8. Conclusion - The End of the Experiment: Discourses on Citizenship at the Close of the Mandate -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index