ISBN:
9781443823517
,
1443823511
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xviii, 406 pages)
,
illustrations, map
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Politics, culture and the Lebanese diaspora
DDC:
325.5692
Keywords:
Lebanese Congresses
;
Foreign countries
;
Lebanese Congresses
;
Migration, immigration & emigration
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Sociology & anthropology
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Political structure & processes
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Emigration and immigration
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
;
Conference papers and proceedings
;
Lebanon Congresses
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Lebanon Congresses Emigration and immigration
;
Lebanon
;
Lebanese
;
Foreign countries
;
Congresses
;
Lebanon
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Congresses
;
Electronic books
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Libanesen
;
Diaspora
;
Kulturelle Identität
Abstract:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; ON BEING HONKEY-LEBANESE; LEBANESE SKILLED IMMIGRANTS IN FRANCE; HERITAGE PROJECTS IN THE LEBANESE DIASPORA; THE FIFTH ELEMENT; SECURITIZING DUAL CITIZENSHIP; FOREIGNERS AMONG CITIZENS; ACROSS LANDSCAPES OF DIASPORA AND MIGRATION; THE MYTH OF RETURN RECONSIDERED; WITH THE FIG, THE OLIVE AND THE POMEGRANATE TREES; SECTION II; ON LEBANESE POLITICS AND MIGRATION; CONTRIBUTIONS OF YOUNG LEBANESE CANADIANS TO PEACE-BUILDING IN LEBANON; THE LEBANESE COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL LIFE IN QUEBEC; FACING THE MAINSTREAM.
Abstract:
THE MAKING OF A LEBANESE PAN-ARAB NATIONALIST IN THE ARGENTINE MAHJARTHE TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS OF THE LEBANESE IN GHANA, 1948-1963; THE JOURNEY OF THE "TURBAH SAJDAH"FROM MECCA TO KERBALA TO JERUSALEM; THE TIES THAT BIND; POLITICS AMONG ARAB MIGRANTS IN AUSTRALIA; SECTION III; IS BROWN THE COLOR OF SEXUALITY?; SEDUCTIVE IDENTIFICATIONS; THE LAST MIGRATION; UNSTATED; REMEMBERING THE CIVIL WAR'S DESTRUCTION IN AN AGE OF RECONSTRUCTION.
Abstract:
This book is a collection of essays that were originally presented at a conference at the Lebanese American University in late May 2007, entitled "Politics, Culture and the Lebanese Diaspora." It looks at various facets of the Lebanese Diaspora and examines the politics and culture of Lebanese migrants and their descendants in different parts of the world while detailing the communal, national and transnational elements of these practices and exploring the changing characteristics of politics
Note:
Papers from the conference "Politics, Culture, and Lebanese Diaspora" held in Beirut, Lebanon, 2007. - Includes bibliographical references. - Print version record
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