ABSTRACT

This article deals with the ways in which diaspora communities use activism, transnational political engagements and mobilisation in order to create and sustain identities and navigate in the transnational space of being neither ‘here’ nor ‘there’. Through an exploration of how Palestinians in Sweden use activism as a way to navigate their situation in between Palestine and Sweden, it is shown that transnational activism and social mobilisation are means of managing, meaning-making, mediating and negotiation vulnerable and complicated position between places and identities. Using narrative material collected through interviews with Palestinians in Sweden, this article unveils the relationship between conflict, activism and identity formation and how tensions, struggles and contestations inform that interlinkage. The article explores those relationships through investigating the case of the Palestinian community in Sweden and its narrated experiences of conflict and activism through the lens of the former homeland as well as the new or current country of residence. The study aims to deepen our understandings of the profound meaning of solidarity with a homeland lost as well as to a deeper understanding of the Palestinian diaspora in the Global North.

摘要

本文讨论侨民社区如何使用激进主义、跨国政治参与和动员来创造和维持身份，并在既不在“这里”也不“在那里”的跨国空间中导航。通过探索瑞典的巴勒斯坦人如何利用激进主义作为在巴勒斯坦和瑞典之间导航他们的处境的方式，表明跨国激进主义和社会动员是管理、意义制造、调解和谈判的手段。和身份。本文使用通过对瑞典巴勒斯坦人的采访收集的叙事材料，揭示了冲突、激进主义和身份形成之间的关系，以及紧张局势、斗争和争论如何形成这种相互联系。本文通过调查瑞典的巴勒斯坦社区的案例及其通过前故乡以及新的或当前居住国的视角讲述的冲突和激进主义经历来探索这些关系。该研究旨在加深我们对团结失去家园的深刻意义的理解，以及对全球北方的巴勒斯坦侨民的更深入理解。