The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918-1947

ISBN-13: 9781474415507 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str.

Lauren Banko

Opis

This book situates the evolution of citizenship at the centre of state formation under the quasi-colonial mandate administration in Palestine.

Spis treści

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 from the Palestinian Arab perspective, 1918-1925; 4. The diaspora and the meanings of Palestinian citizenship, 1925-1931; 5. Institutionalizing citizenship: creating distinctions between Arab and Jewish Palestinian citizens, 1926-1934; 6. Whose rights to citizenship? Expression and variations of Palestinian Mandate citizenship, 1926-1935; 7. The Palestine Revolt and stalled citizenship; 8. The end of the experiment: discourses on citizenship at the close of the Mandate; Notes; Bibliography.