Mobility and Transnationalism: Travel Patterns and Identity among Palestinian-Canadians in Greater Toronto Area - Couverture souple

Zaidan, Esmat

 
9783845437323: Mobility and Transnationalism: Travel Patterns and Identity among Palestinian-Canadians in Greater Toronto Area
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3845437324 ISBN 13 : 9783845437323
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

The study explored the politics of mobility for Palestinian-Canadians, an understudied population in terms of transnational practices and issues of identity and hybridity. It also explored issues of citizenship and belonging using extensive interview data with Palestinian-Canadians in the GTA. Throughout the thesis the highly politicized aspect of mobility/immobility, national identity, and national autonomy in the Palestinian case was present. The research highlighted the continuing role of state actors in determining mobility and rights, despite the increasing rhetoric of borderless mobility. The study reveals that the majority of the Palestinian Canadians travel overseas regularly and their outbound travel patterns demonstrate a significant ethnic component. Palestinian Canadians travel to their country of birth as their dominant outbound travel destination for the purposes of visiting friends and relatives and maintaining social and cultural ties, indicating strong ties with homeland that have ethnic links. However, Palestinians holding Canadian citizenship have a higher propensity to travel overseas than permanent resident.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The study explored the politics of mobility for Palestinian-Canadians, an understudied population in terms of transnational practices and issues of identity and hybridity. It also explored issues of citizenship and belonging using extensive interview data with Palestinian-Canadians in the GTA. Throughout the thesis the highly politicized aspect of mobility/immobility, national identity, and national autonomy in the Palestinian case was present. The research highlighted the continuing role of state actors in determining mobility and rights, despite the increasing rhetoric of borderless mobility. The study reveals that the majority of the Palestinian Canadians travel overseas regularly and their outbound travel patterns demonstrate a significant ethnic component. Palestinian Canadians travel to their country of birth as their dominant outbound travel destination for the purposes of visiting friends and relatives and maintaining social and cultural ties, indicating strong ties with homeland that have ethnic links. However, Palestinians holding Canadian citizenship have a higher propensity to travel overseas than permanent resident.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Esmat Zaidan worked as a lecturer at Waterloo University in Canada in the Faculty of Environment where she finished her Master's of Applied Environmental Studies in Local Economic Development and PhD. in Geography and Environmental Management. She currently works as an assistant professor at Birzeit University in Palestine.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3845437324
ISBN 13 
9783845437323
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
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