More Israels

I don't mean more Jewish homelands necessarily, but Israel in the sense of Liberia- newly-(re)created nations for the purpose of resettling a long-persecuted minority, with interesting cultural results. Israel was settled by many Eastern Europeans and it's located in the Levant. Liberia was settled by Americanized freemen and it's in West Africa. You do the math. I'm not talking about any ethnic homelands, I'm talking about places where there would be culture clash and explosive (unfortunately) results.
 

Hendryk

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One scenario could involve the various South Asian communities that had settled in British African colonies and, in OTL, were kicked out by post-independence populist regimes. I among others have wondered how things would have turned out if they had moved en masse to Zanzibar. The idea was to make the island an African version of Singapore, but one could also take the pessimistic approach, and imagine a situation in which the arrival of so many migrants is met with hostility by locals, resulting in ethnic polarization and lasting intercommunal violence, somewhere between Cyprus and Sri Lanka.
 

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the expulsion of the moriscos in 1616 could do that

While that is too early to result in a modern re-settlement state, a Sephardic "homeland" around Thessalonika could be got with a P.O.D as late as the thirties.
 
Maybe before long we'll see new homelands for varying island nations, especially from the pacific, due to global warming...



And what about Ghadaffi providing a new nation for the "nation of islam"?:D
 
Maybe before long we'll see new homelands for varying island nations, especially from the pacific, due to global warming...


And what about Ghadaffi providing a new nation for the "nation of islam"?:D

Most will likely end up in Australia and New Zealand.

I think an NOI "homeland" would work about as well as the Rastas who settled in Ethiopia. There was an attempt by Malcolm X, while still with the NOI, to set up a separate area within the US for them, believe it or not funded by Klan money.
 
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