Immigration to the kingdom of Jerusalem

WI more Europeans moved to the kingdom, could they have held on to the area.

How would this come about? One way could be to have the First Crusaders actually stay there (preferably with lots more survivors from the peasants' crusade), which means changing their motivations from largely purely religious or coming up with some other reason(s) for them to stay. Another would be to secure an overland route through Anatolia, which IOTL they never really managed. If they push back the Turks and succeed in that then it'll help a lot. That's actually the one I chose for my own ATL about surviving crusader states: Taking the Cross (shameless self-plug). The Crusade of 1101 succeeding could do it, as if they had succeeded they would have secured an Anatolian land route and the myth of the crusaders' invincibility wouldn't have been shattered so soon. Severing the Muslim connection between Syria and Egypt could also allow them to survive in my opinion. They only just missed out on conquering Egypt due to Syrians constantly arriving and severing the connection prevents the Muslims from being able to properly unify, hugely increasing the crusaders' chances of survival.

I'm sorry this doesn't quite answer your question, but you need to decide how/why more people are moving to Outremer. More people is going to seriously help the Latin East, but it itself won't be the cause of their survival, more sort of a product of whatever the actual cause is. At least that's what I've just convinced myself while writing this haha!
 
Well, they would have had a better chance, yes, but the lack of immigration from Europe was not what ending up dooming them. Precipitously-based littoral nations are going to have trouble surviving, especially when established on a semi-hostile population (more hostile than not, likely by this point) and surrounded on all sides by a united foe. Once the states can be sustained in depth (at least up to the desert of northern Arabia) then you have a better chance for longer-term survival.

You're putting the cart before the horse here.
 
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