From the Middle East to Europe: Geopolitics of the Palestinians in Exile
From the Middle East to Europe: Geopolitics of the Palestinians in Exile

Author(s): Fanny Christou
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Geopolitics, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Middle East to Europe; Geopolitics; Geopolitics;
Summary/Abstract: More than seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, the Palestinian cause resonates way beyond the Middle East. Revealing major shifts between the global and the local, the Palestinian exile since the Nakba in 1948 (Khalidi, 2014) contributed to the formation of various migratory experiences framed within the permanency of the statelessness (Chatty, 2010). Drawing on the concept of diaspora(s) (Brubaker, 2005), this chapter aims to provide a deep general overview of the geopolitical configurations structuring the Palestinian mobility in the Middle East provoking new forms of migration towards Europe in search of a better life. This study is based on an extensive literature review as well as data collected between 2015 and 2019 in Sweden, where an important part of the Palestinian diaspora can be found today. It attempts to address the ways Palestinians have been forming the largest and most protracted population of externally displaced refugees in the world over time and their current geography, dispersed within various regions of the world.

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