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*Together, these 1948 and 1967 refugees make up the majority of the Palestinian diaspora.
*Together, these 1948 and 1967 refugees make up the majority of the Palestinian diaspora.
*Besides those displaced by war, others have '''emigrated overseas for various reasons such as work opportunity, education and religious persecution'''
*Besides those displaced by war, others have '''emigrated overseas for various reasons such as work opportunity, education and religious persecution'''
*In the decade following the 1967 war, for example, an average of 21,000 Palestinians per year were forced out of Israeli-controlled areas.The pattern of Palestinian flight continued during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.<ref>"Palestinian diaspora," in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_diaspora, accessed 8 August 2021.</ref>
*In the decade following the 1967 war, for example, an average of 21,000 Palestinians per year were forced out of Israeli-controlled areas.The pattern of Palestinian flight continued during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
*'''The countries outside the Palestinian territories with significant Palestinian populations are:'''
 
* [[Jordan]] 3,240,000
* [[Israel]] 1,650,000
* [[Syria]] 630,000
* [[Chile]] 500,000 (largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East).
* [[Lebanon]] 402,582
* [[Saudi Arabia]] 280,245
* [[Egypt]] 270,245
* [[United States]] 255,000 (the largest concentrations in [[Chicago]], [[Detroit]] and [[Los Angeles]]; [[History of Palestinians in Los Angeles]]).
* [[Honduras]] 250,000
* [[Guatemala]] est. 200,000
* [[Mexico]] 120,000
* [[Qatar]] 100,000
* [[Germany]] 80,000
* [[Kuwait]] 80,000
* [[El Salvador]] 70,000
* [[Brazil]] 59,000
* [[Iraq]] 57,000
* [[Yemen]] 55,000
* [[Canada]] 50,975
* [[Australia]] 45,000
* [[Libya]] 44,000
* [[Puerto Rico]] est. 30,000
* [[Greece]] est. 30,000
* [[United Kingdom]] 20,000
* [[Peru]] 19,000
* [[Denmark]] 15,000
* [[Colombia]] 12,000
* [[Japan]] est. 10,000
* [[Paraguay]] 10.000
* [[Netherlands]] 9,000
* [[Sweden]] 7,000
* [[Algeria]] 4,030
* [[Austria]] 4,010
* [[Norway]] 3,825
* The rest of [[Latin America]], [[India]], [[Russia]], [[Sub-Saharan Africa]] and [[East Asia]] has fairly small Palestinian populations. {{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
 
The majority of the estimated 100,000 Palestinians in the [[European Union]] (EU) are in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Denmark]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Greece]], [[Italy]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Spain]] and [[Sweden]]. Outside the EU is [[Norway]] and [[Switzerland]]. Germany's capital [[Berlin]] has one of the largest Palestinian communities outside of the Middle East with about 30,000-40,000 people of Palestinian origin residing in the city (~1% of the total population) .<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055244/http://www.schule-ohne-rassismus.org/fileadmin/pdf/stadt_der_vielfalt_bf.pdf]</ref>
<ref>"Palestinian diaspora," in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_diaspora, accessed 8 August 2021.</ref>


==Records of      Emigrants in Their Destination Nations==
==Records of      Emigrants in Their Destination Nations==

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State of Palestine Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Immigration into State of Palestine[edit | edit source]

  • The entirety of territory claimed by the State of Palestine has been occupied since 1948, first by Egypt (Gaza Strip) and Jordan (West Bank) and then by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967.
  • After World War II, in 1947, the UN adopted a Partition Plan for Mandatory Palestine recommending the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states and an internationalized Jerusalem. This partition plan was accepted by the Jews but rejected by the Arabs. The day after the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, on 14 May 1948, neighboring Arab armies invaded the former British mandate and fought the Israeli forces.
  • Later, the All-Palestine Government was established by the Arab League on 22 September 1948 to govern the Egyptian-controlled enclave in Gaza.
  • It was soon recognized by all Arab League members except Transjordan. Though jurisdiction of the Government was declared to cover the whole of the former Mandatory Palestine, its effective jurisdiction was limited to the Gaza Strip.
  • Israel later captured the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria in June 1967 during the Six-Day War.
  • On 15 November 1988 in Algiers, Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Palestine.
  • A year after the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, the Palestinian National Authority was formed to govern (in varying degrees) areas A and B in the West Bank, comprising 165 "islands", and the Gaza Strip.
  • After Hamas became the PNA parliament's leading party in the most recent elections (2006), a conflict broke out between it and the Fatah party, leading to Gaza being taken over by Hamas in 2007 (two years after the Israeli disengagement).
  • The State of Palestine has been recognized by 138 of the 193 UN members and since 2012 has had a status of a non-member observer state in the United Nations.[1]

Emigration From State of Palestine[edit | edit source]

  • Since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Palestinians have experienced several waves of exile and have spread into different host countries around the world.
  • In addition to the more than 700,000 Palestinian refugees of 1948, hundreds of thousands were also displaced in the 1967 Six-Day War.
  • In fact, after 1967, a number of young Palestinian men were encouraged to migrate to South America.
  • Together, these 1948 and 1967 refugees make up the majority of the Palestinian diaspora.
  • Besides those displaced by war, others have emigrated overseas for various reasons such as work opportunity, education and religious persecution
  • In the decade following the 1967 war, for example, an average of 21,000 Palestinians per year were forced out of Israeli-controlled areas.The pattern of Palestinian flight continued during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
  • The countries outside the Palestinian territories with significant Palestinian populations are:


The majority of the estimated 100,000 Palestinians in the European Union (EU) are in the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. Outside the EU is Norway and Switzerland. Germany's capital Berlin has one of the largest Palestinian communities outside of the Middle East with about 30,000-40,000 people of Palestinian origin residing in the city (~1% of the total population) .[2] [3]

Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations[edit | edit source]

Dark thin font green pin Version 4.png One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to immigration records for major destination countries below.


References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "State of Palestine", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State of Palestine, accessed August 2021.
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ "Palestinian diaspora," in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_diaspora, accessed 8 August 2021.
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