Abstract
Canada is home to nearly 45,000 Palestinians, including those born there and abroad. Like many diaspora groups and ethnic communities, Palestinian Canadians engage in a variety of forms of community organization, some of which focus on success in Canada, others on political and social goals for Palestine, and still others which blur the lines between over-there and over-here. This paper uses a transnational migration studies lens (Levitt and Glick Schiller 2004) to analyse two National Capital Region-specific Palestinian-Canadian organizations, the Ottawa Palestinian Festival and the Association of Palestinian Arab Canadians, which use different tactics to engage with Palestinian-Canadian identity, the politics of Palestine, and the policies and practices of Canadian multiculturalism. The varying strategies pursued by Palestinian-Canadians reflect the many possible pathways towards anchoring a transnational Palestinian community-in-practice (Regan Wills 2019) in a Canadian context.
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Anthropology
Political Science
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