Palestinians in Diaspora: Their Identity and Nationalism in Jordan

Dr. Aiko Nishikida, Assistant Professor of Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, presented her research paper on Palestinians in Diaspora: Their Identity and Nationalism in Jordan, which is based on the field research she conducted  from 2003 to 2005 in Jordan and Palestine (the West Bank). She discussed the role of Palestinian refugees as actors, the issue of citizenship/Nationality and refugees, in addition to National identity in the Diaspora. She also presented an analysis about kinship network and identity of Palestinians in Jordan. On a collective level, she spoke of the Nakba as a collective experience and how it forms a memory of successive experience of deprivation, in addition to shared traditional Palestinian cultures (Turath) such as embroidery which represents Palestinian identity.