Graduation Year
2015
Date of Submission
4-2015
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Middle East Studies
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Professor Ilai Saltzman
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Abstract
The following thesis examines the identity-based implications of the disengagement from the West Bank, the Madrid Conference, the Oslo Accords, and the Peace Treaty with Israel on Palestinian identity in Jordan. The paper analyzes various sub-groups of Palestinian-Jordanians and their relationships with Jordanian and Palestinian identities; it then discusses the way in which Jordan’s narrative has been projected onto and internalized differently by its Transjordanian and Palestinian-Jordanian citizens. As the Jordanian government’s position shifted from “Jordan is Palestine” to “Jordan is Jordan and Palestine is Palestine,” this thesis exposes the tension inherent in hybridized Palestinian-Jordanian identities that developed in the absence of the possibility of return to Palestine over subsequent generations.
Recommended Citation
Rosenthal, Rebecca L., "Dueling with Distrust and Dual Loyalty: Palestinian Identity in Jordan from 1988 to 1994" (2015). CMC Senior Theses. 1166.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1166
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
