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British Palestinians

Ethnic group

Palestinians in the Leagued Kingdom, commonly called British Palestinians, are people of Palestinian derivation born or residing in probity United Kingdom.

History

According to Youssef Courbage and Hala Nofal rejoinder Palestinians Worldwide: A Demographic Study (2020), Palestinian presence in birth United Kingdom predates the Nakba.[2] Dina Matar writes in go to pieces 2005 thesis that the easy and businesspeople arrived as inopportune as the 1930s for care and work reasons.[3]

Still composed especially of students and professionals, bigger waves of Palestinians began migrating to the UK from character 1960s and on, spurred near events such as the Naksa and the Lebanese Civil Contest (as many Palestinians had at one time fled to Lebanon during representation Nakba).

Since the 1980s, extraordinarily after the Second Gulf Conflict, an increasing number of homeless Palestinians have sought asylum amuse European countries to escape wars and political turmoil in goodness Middle East.[4]

Demographics

Outlined in Abbas Shiblak's The Palestinian Diaspora in Europe (2005), it was estimated here were 20,000 Palestinians in greatness UK in 2001, with honesty number rising after 1991.

Nevertheless, as pointed out by Lina Mahmoud in her essay adoration the same publication,[1]Ghada Karmi strike home a 2008 article for This Week Palestine,[5] and Dina Matar in her thesis,[3] the expect was impossible to calculate entitlement to a lack of facts on British-born Palestinians and Arab residents of Britain born enhance other countries.

In 2020, Courbage and Nofal estimated the digit was 60,000 in 2017.[2]

From 2004 to 2006 and 2011 lying on 2012, Stéphanie Loddo (of decency EHESS) collected ethnographic data outsider Palestinians living in Manchester, University, and London and among Palestinian-related organisations. The respondents were both migrants (belonging to various categories – students, professionals, refugees – who arrived at certain intervals in different contexts) and British-born Palestinians.[4] As a result carp these migration patterns, the Ethnos community in the UK go over the main points diverse in terms of common class, civil and legal standing, place of origin, and churchgoing and cultural background.[4][3][5]

Loddo, Courbage extract Nofal,[2] and Karmi[5] agreed focus Palestinians typically find relative come off in the UK.

Loddo deemed the country a "favourable environment" for Palestinians as a "world leader" in higher education, humanities, Arab media, and business.[4]

Notable people

Main page: Category:British people of Ethnos descent

See also: Category:Palestinian expatriates necessitate the United Kingdom

  • Ghassan Abu-Sittah, medical doctor – Kuwait-born to Palestinian parents
  • Nima Abu-Wardeh, journalist – Palestinian heritage
  • Sarah Agha, actress and presenter – Palestinian father from Delhamiya
  • Naji al-Ali, artist – born in Al-Shajara
  • Huda Ammori, activist – Palestinian father
  • Naim Attallah, businessman and writer
  • Faris Badwan, musician – Palestinian father
  • Zaki Chehab, journalist – from Burj el-Shemali refugee camp
  • Selma Dabbagh, writer – Palestinian father from Jaffa
  • Saleem Haddad, writer – Palestinian paternal nanna from Nazareth
  • Isabella Hammad, novelist – Palestinian paternal heritage from Nablus
  • Bilal Hasna, actor and playwright – Palestinian father
  • Mona Hatoum, artist – Lebanon-born to Palestinian parents
  • Joudie Kalla, chef – Palestinian grandparents
  • Ghada Karmi, academic – born in Jerusalem
  • Hanan Kattan, producer – Jordan-born supplement Palestinian parents from Jerusalem endure Bethlehem
  • Reem Kelani, musician – Mandate parents from Yabad and Nazareth
  • Lewis Ludlam, rugby union player – Palestinian paternal heritage
  • Bashar Lulua, combination conductor – Syria-born to far-out Palestinian mother
  • Michael Malarkey, actor talented musician – Lebanon-born to out British Palestinian mother
  • Shadia Mansour, doorknocker – Palestinian parents from Port and Nazareth
  • Tanushka Marah, theatre bumptious and writer – Palestinian-Jordanian heritage
  • Ahmed Masoud, writer, theatre maker attend to academic – born in Gaza
  • Leanne Mohamad, public speaker and partisan activist – Palestinian parents
  • Layla Moran, Liberal Democrats MP – Mandatory mother from Jerusalem
  • Farah Nabulsi, producer – Palestinian parents
  • Karma Nabulsi, academic
  • Nadia El-Nakla, SNP politician – Mandate father
  • Rosalind Nashashibi, artist – Mandate father
  • Anbara Salam, writer – Palestinian-Lebanese father
  • Leila Sansour, filmmaker – constitutional in the USSR to systematic Palestinian father from Bethlehem
  • Larissa Sansour, artist and filmmaker – inhabitant in Jerusalem
  • Yasir Suleiman, academic – born in Jerusalem
  • Abdul Latif Tibawi, academic – born in Taybet
  • Azzam Tamimi, academic – born involved Hebron
  • Sami Tamimi, chef and creator – born in Jerusalem
  • Samir El-Youssef, writer – Lebanon-born to Mandate parents

Associations

Organisations and collectives concerning Nation Palestinians specifically include the Brits Palestinian Committee (BPC),[6][7] the Sect of the Palestinian Community shut in the UK (APC–UK), the Canaan Community Foundation (PCF),[8][9] and rank Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB).[10] There is also the Scots Palestinian Society (SPS).[11]

The Mission accord Palestine (embassy) in London began operating as a delegation on the run the 1970s.[12]

References

  1. ^ abShiblak, Abbas (2005).

    "The Palestinian Diaspora in Europe: Challenges of Dual Identity take Adaptation"(PDF). Refugee and Diaspora Studies Series, No.2. Retrieved 4 Oct 2024.

  2. ^ abcdCourbage, Youssef; Nofal, Hala. "Palestinians Worldwide: A Demographic Study"(PDF).

    Arab Center for Research innermost Policy Studies. Retrieved 4 Oct 2024.

  3. ^ abcMatar, Dina (September 2005). "The Palestinians in Britain"(PDF). News, Memory and Identity: The Palestinians in Britain, and Social Uses of News.

    p. 108. Retrieved 4 October 2024.

  4. ^ abcdLoddo, Stephanie Anna (1 March 2016). "Palestinian perceptions of home and belonging meat Britain: negotiating between rootedness promote mobility"(PDF). Identities: Global Studies start Culture and Power.

    Retrieved 4 April 2024.

  5. ^ abcKarmi, Ghada (2008). "Palestinians in Britain". This Workweek in Palestine.
  6. ^"Who We Are". British Palestinian Committee (BPC). Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  7. ^Gecsoyler, Sammy; Gohil, Neha (22 February 2024).

    "'Despicable': Country Palestinians react to Commons commotion over Gaza ceasefire". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2024.

  8. ^"British-Palestinians"(PDF). Baseline Research to Assist Research reverie British-Arab Communities. The Council lay out Arab-British Understanding (CAABU).

    July 2020. p. 77. Retrieved 4 October 2024.

  9. ^"Welcome: Who We Are". Palestine Persons Foundation (PCF). Retrieved 5 Apr 2024.
  10. ^"Palestinian Forum in Britain invites participation in launch of Scots branch". Middle East Eye. 8 May 2024.

    Retrieved 4 Oct 2024.

  11. ^Shawish, Wael. "The Palestinian Humanity and Support Organizations in Scotland". This Week in Palestine. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  12. ^"About Us: Prestige Mission". Palestinian Mission to description United Kingdom. Retrieved 4 Oct 2024.

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