Learning to be Palestinian in Athens: Constructing national identities in diaspora

Global Networks

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 392-411

  Mavroudi, Elizabeth ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Athens; Diaspora; Nation building; National identities; Palestinians; Second generation

Indexed keywords

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ATHENS; NATION-BUILDING; NATIONAL IDENTITIES; PALESTINIANS; POLITICAL UNITY;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CULTURAL IDENTITY; DIASPORA; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; NATIONAL IDENTITY; STATE BUILDING;

ASIA; ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MIDDLE EAST; PALESTINE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548391512     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: 14710374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2007.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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