Palestinian Mexicans

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Palestinian Mexicans
Total population
13,000^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Mexico City, Yucatán, Baja California
Languages
Mexican Spanish, Palestinian Arabic
Religion
Christianity and Islam
Related ethnic groups
Arab Mexicans

Palestinian Mexicans (Arabic: المكسيكيون الفلسطينيون) are Mexican citizens of Palestinian descent or Palestine-born people residing in Mexico. There are approximately 13,000 Mexicans of Palestinian origin.

History

The period of Palestinian migration to Mexico took place from 1893 to 1949. Palestinian immigration to Mexico continued during the mid-20th century, when the Middle East witnessed a mass emigration of Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians fleeing from political instability. Approximately 23,000 Palestinians were registered as Arab without taking into account the different nationalities.^[2] With the decades that followed, tens of thousand of migrants from Palestine as well as other Arab nations began arriving in Mexico. World War I created a new wave as widespread food shortages and famine ravaged the Levant.^[3]

The delimitation is given by the data that the analyzed source throws. The flows of Palestinian immigrants to Mexico began at the end of the 20th century, and from then on they continued to occur, either increased or decreased according to the periods until reaching their end of emigration. The survey of the economic and sociocultural aspects of the Palestinians in Mexico and their process of integration into the country was based exclusively on the fieldwork carried out in Monterrey and Torreon.^[4]

Mexicans of Palestinian descent

Gabriel Zaid, writer, poet and intellectual
Yasser Corona, former professional footballer

References

^ "Palestinian Arab in Mexico". Joshua Project. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
^ Secretaría de Cultura. "Revive los paisajes y las historias de la comunidad palestina en México" (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 January 2021.
^ Shams, Alex. "Inside the Arab heart of Mexico City". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
^ Rahal, D.M.; Mishima, M.E.O.; Navarro, M.G.; Cruz, S.C.; Chávez, J.R.; Soto, M.C.B.; Marín, R.C.; Saberi, I.A.D.; Ham-Chande, R.; Castilla, A.R.; Zeraoui, Z. (1997). M.E.O. Mishima (ed.). La migración palestina a México, 1893-1949. El Colegio de Mexico. pp. 305–364. doi:10.2307/j.ctvhn0dmp.11. ISBN 9789681208097. JSTOR j.ctvhn0dmp.11.

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Israeli–Palestinian	Timeline 1947–1949 Palestine war 1948 Palestinian exodus Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon First Lebanon War First Intifada Second Intifada Gaza War Israel–Hamas war
Black September	Dawson's Field hijackings
Fatah–Hamas conflict	Battle of Gaza 2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza
Hamas-Salafist conflict	Hamas-Jund Ansar Allah clash

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Government

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Gaza Strip (Hamas-controlled)	Prime Minister President Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice

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Economy

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Ancestry and ethnicity in Mexico

Mexicans

Non-Amerindian

Mexico	Mestizo
From Sub-Saharan Africa	Kenyan
From the Americas	American Mascogo Mormon Argentine Belizean Brazilian Canadian Chilean Colombian Costa Rican Cuban Dominican Ecuadorian Guatemalan Haitian Honduran Nicaraguan Peruvian Salvadoran Uruguayan Venezuelan
From South and East Asia	Chinese Filipino Indian Japanese Mexico City Korean Romani¹
From Europe	Austrian Belgian British Cornish Bulgarian Croatian Czech Dutch French German Mennonite² Greek Hungarian Irish Italian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Scandinavian Norwegian Swedish Spanish Basque Swiss Ukrainian
From Western Asia and North Africa	Arab Lebanese Palestinian Syrian Armenian Assyrian Jewish¹ Iranian Turkish

Amerindian

More than 100,000 people	Chinantec Ch'ol Huastec Mazahua Mazatec Mixe Mixtec Nahua Otomi Purépecha Rarámuri Tlapanec Totonac Tzeltal Tzotzil Yucatec Maya Zapotec
20,000–100,000 people	Amuzgo Chatino Chontal Maya Cora Cuicatec Huave Huichol Mam Mayo Popoluca Tepehuán Tojolabal Triqui Yaqui Zoque
1,000–20,000 people	Chocho Chichimeca Jonaz Chuj Guarijio Jacaltec Mexicanero Ocuiltec Pame Pima Bajo Qʼanjobʼal Tacuate Tepehua
Fewer than 1,000 people	Aguacatec Cochimí Cocopah Ixcatec Ixil Kaqchikel K'iche' Kikapú³ Kiliwa Kumeyaay Lacandon Motozintlec Opata Paipai Qʼeqchiʼ Seri Tohono Oʼodham

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¹ Jews and Romani originate in the Middle East and South Asia respectively, with most arriving to Mexico via Europe
² Primarily arrived via Canada
³ Originated in what is now the United States

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