Transnationalism and Its Discontents during the 1948 Arab—Israeli War

In recent years, scholars have become increasingly interested in the concept of “transnationalism.” Thanks to the progressive globalization of political and economic structures and communication networks, previous constraints on the extent to which individuals can participate in more than one society have diminished. Such shifts have had a profound impact on how scholars have conceptualized minority identities. Thus, while those who worked on immigrant communities once focused primarily on “distinctions between the here and the there, the center and the periphery, black and white.... such analyses are being supplemented by a whole set of new, unbounded concepts ... [including] multiplicity, border crossing, disjunction and ethnoscapes, cultural hybridization, porousness, webs, and transnational communities” (Goldin 2

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