Ramallah Diaspora Convention

The Ramallah convention, supported by the Ramallah city hall and private businesses, is an annual meeting bringing together diaspora connected with the city. It uses an extensive list of locally-organised diaspora meetings which have grown in popularity since the 1990s in particular among the community in the United States. The success of such initiatives reveals how migrants can, in some instances, favour affiliation with specific towns or villages over national connections.