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Return migration and the rise of the Palestinian nouveaux riches, 1870-1925

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:05 authored by Jacob NorrisJacob Norris
This article examines the figure of the returning e´migre´ in late Ottoman and early Mandate Palestine. The wave of Palestinians who emigrated in the pre–World War I period did not, for the most part, intend to settle abroad permanently. Hailing largely from small towns and villages in the Palestinian hilly interior, they moved in and out of the Middle East with great regularity and tended to reinvest their money and social capital in their place of origin. The article argues that these emigrants constituted a previously undocumented segment of Palestinian society, the nouveaux riches who challenged the older elites from larger towns and cities in both social and economic terms. The discussion focuses in particular on their creation of new forms of bourgeois culture and the disruptive impact this had on gender and family relations, complicating the assumption that middle-class modernity in Palestine was largely effected by external actors.

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  • Published

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  • Published version

Journal

Journal of Palestine Studies

ISSN

0377-919X

Publisher

University of California Press

Issue

2

Volume

46

Page range

60-75

Department affiliated with

  • History Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • The Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-07-10

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-07-13

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-07-09

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