Transnational Palestinian families in the West Bank, Israel, and Germany. A trilateral study of changing gender relations, marriage patterns, and honor semantics

本项目希望以“跨国巴勒斯坦家庭”为例，为改变阿拉伯父权家庭传统的研究做出贡献。该项目的主旨是探讨移徙和分离对在西岸、以色列和德国有分支的巴勒斯坦大家庭的社会凝聚力和文化特性的影响。重点是探索(通过定性访谈、纵向家庭案例研究、焦点小组)被政治边界隔开的家庭分支之间的跨境交流关系。因此，三个问题将被解决：(1)当错位，但跨国联系的家庭分支暴露在高度反差的生活世界和社会秩序的长期条件下时，会出现什么样的差异？(2)家庭如何应对在与不知何故变得陌生的亲戚交换家庭故事、礼物和汇款的过程中出现的家庭内部差异？(3)“差异的相遇”对引发“自下而上的社会变化”有何贡献？新的社交媒体(Facebook，Skype等)如何。牵涉到这里吗？为了获得新的见解，我们希望以一种新颖的方式将两种社会研究(中东人类学和社会学、跨国移民研究)结合起来，并从巴勒斯坦、以色列和德国学者的合作研究努力中获得协同效应。

This project wants to contribute to the study of changing patriarchal Arab family traditions in taking “transnational Palestinian families” as an example. The thrust of the project is to explore the impact of migration and separation on the social cohesion and cultural identity of extended Palestinian families with branches living in the West Bank, Israel and Germany. The focus is on exploring (with qualitative interviews, longitudinal family case studies, focus groups) cross-border exchange relations between family branches separated by political borders. Hence, three questions will be addressed: (1) What kind of differences will emerge when dislocated, yet transnationally connected family branches are exposed to living under long-term conditions in highly contrasting life worlds and social orders? (2) How do families cope with experiencing intra-familial differences coming up in the course of exchanging family stories, gifts, and remittances with relatives who have somehow become strangers? (3) What is the contribution of “encounters of difference” to inducing “social change from below” and how are the new social media (Facebook, Skype etc.) involved here? To gain new insights, we want to combine two strands of social research (Middle East anthropology and sociology, transnational migration studies) in a novel way and draw synergies from a collaborative research effort of Palestinian, Israeli, and German scholars.