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The Mexican Mahjar : Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate / Camila Pastor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (337 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781477314630
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.800972 23
LOC classification:
  • F1392.A7 P37 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Mexican Mahjar -- Chapter 2 Managing Mobility -- Chapter 3 Race and Patronage -- Chapter 4 Migrants and the Law -- Chapter 5 Modernism -- Chapter 6 Making the Mahjar Lebanese -- Chapter 7 Objects of Memory -- Chapter 8 The Arab and Its Double -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Migration from the Middle East brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the time the Ottoman political system collapsed in 1918, over a third of the population of the Mashriq, i.e. the Levant, had made the transatlantic journey. This intense mobility was interrupted by World War I but resumed in the 1920s and continued through the late 1940s under the French Mandate. Many migrants returned to their homelands, but the rest concentrated in Brazil, Argentina, the United States, Haiti, and Mexico, building transnational lives. The Mexican Mahjar provides the first global history of Middle Eastern migrations to Mexico. Making unprecedented use of French colonial archives and historical ethnography, Camila Pastor examines how French colonial control over Syria and Lebanon affected the migrants. Tracing issues of class, race, and gender through the decades of increased immigration to Mexico and looking at the narratives created by the Mahjaris (migrants) themselves in both their old and new homes, Pastor sheds new light on the creation of transnational networks at the intersection of Arab, French, and Mexican colonial modernisms. Revealing how migrants experienced mobility as conquest, diaspora, exile, or pilgrimage, The Mexican Mahjar tracks global history on an intimate scale.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Mexican Mahjar -- Chapter 2 Managing Mobility -- Chapter 3 Race and Patronage -- Chapter 4 Migrants and the Law -- Chapter 5 Modernism -- Chapter 6 Making the Mahjar Lebanese -- Chapter 7 Objects of Memory -- Chapter 8 The Arab and Its Double -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Migration from the Middle East brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the time the Ottoman political system collapsed in 1918, over a third of the population of the Mashriq, i.e. the Levant, had made the transatlantic journey. This intense mobility was interrupted by World War I but resumed in the 1920s and continued through the late 1940s under the French Mandate. Many migrants returned to their homelands, but the rest concentrated in Brazil, Argentina, the United States, Haiti, and Mexico, building transnational lives. The Mexican Mahjar provides the first global history of Middle Eastern migrations to Mexico. Making unprecedented use of French colonial archives and historical ethnography, Camila Pastor examines how French colonial control over Syria and Lebanon affected the migrants. Tracing issues of class, race, and gender through the decades of increased immigration to Mexico and looking at the narratives created by the Mahjaris (migrants) themselves in both their old and new homes, Pastor sheds new light on the creation of transnational networks at the intersection of Arab, French, and Mexican colonial modernisms. Revealing how migrants experienced mobility as conquest, diaspora, exile, or pilgrimage, The Mexican Mahjar tracks global history on an intimate scale.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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