Palestinians Born in Exile by Juliane Hammer PAPERBACK 9780292702967

Palestinians Born in ExileDiaspora and the Search for a Homeland\nAuthor(s): Juliane Hammer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292702967, 978-0292702967\nSynopsis\nIn the decade following the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, some 100,000 diasporic Palestinians returned to the West Bank and Gaza. Among them were children and young adults who were born in exile and whose sense of Palestinian identity was shaped not by lived experience but rather through the transmission and re-creation of memories, images, and history. As a result, \""returning\"" to the homeland that had never actually been their home presented challenges and disappointments for these young Palestinians, who found their lifeways and values sometimes at odds with those of their new neighbors in the West Bank and Gaza. \n\n This original ethnography records the experiences of Palestinians born in exile who have emigrated to the Palestinian home.