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Migration of Rich ImmigrantsRevisiting Palestinian Migration and Social Mobility in Honduras: The Caribbean Coast and Family and Kinship Relations

Migration of Rich Immigrants: Revisiting Palestinian Migration and Social Mobility in Honduras:... [Since their arrival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Palestinians and their descendants have been successful merchants and entrepreneurs, emerging as an economic elite in Honduras. A study conducted in the early 1990s showed that 28 families control Honduras’ resources and production systems through their businesses and that 12 of these families are Palestinians are of Palestinian descent (Flores 1990). The number of Palestinian families is likely to have increased in the past two decades. What accounts for Palestinians’ social mobility and emergence as an elite group in Honduras? Studies point to their previous knowledge and skills in commerce and trade, and Honduran migration policies as well as favorable market opportunities for migrants, the absence of or a weak merchant class at the beginning of the twentieth century, and Palestinians’ assimilation into the predominant Honduran culture and society, which is characterized by the national paradigm of mestizaje, that is, the racial mix of European and Indigenous groups (Flores 1990, Euraque 2009, 2006, 1998, 1996, González 1992, Amaya Banegas 1997, Foroohar 2011).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Migration of Rich ImmigrantsRevisiting Palestinian Migration and Social Mobility in Honduras: The Caribbean Coast and Family and Kinship Relations

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Vailati, Alex; Rial, Carmen
Rivera, Lirio Gutiérrez
Migration of Rich Immigrants — Dec 18, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
ISBN
978-1-349-56675-4
Pages
99 –116
DOI
10.1057/9781137510778_6
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Abstract

[Since their arrival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Palestinians and their descendants have been successful merchants and entrepreneurs, emerging as an economic elite in Honduras. A study conducted in the early 1990s showed that 28 families control Honduras’ resources and production systems through their businesses and that 12 of these families are Palestinians are of Palestinian descent (Flores 1990). The number of Palestinian families is likely to have increased in the past two decades. What accounts for Palestinians’ social mobility and emergence as an elite group in Honduras? Studies point to their previous knowledge and skills in commerce and trade, and Honduran migration policies as well as favorable market opportunities for migrants, the absence of or a weak merchant class at the beginning of the twentieth century, and Palestinians’ assimilation into the predominant Honduran culture and society, which is characterized by the national paradigm of mestizaje, that is, the racial mix of European and Indigenous groups (Flores 1990, Euraque 2009, 2006, 1998, 1996, González 1992, Amaya Banegas 1997, Foroohar 2011).]

Published: Dec 18, 2015

Keywords: Social Mobility; North Coast; Host Society; Banana Plantation; Gaza Strip

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