Diasporas of the modern Middle East contextualising community / edited by Anthony Gorman and Sossie Kasbarian.

Other author Gorman, Anthony, 1959-
Other author Kasbarian, Sossie.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Descriptionvi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Arabs--Foreign countries.
Iranians--Foreign countries.
Middle East--Emigration and immigration.
Southeast Asia--Emigration and immigration.

Portion of title Contextualising community
Contents I. Post-Ottoman reconfigurations. Model citizens or a fifth column? Greek Orthodox (Rum) communities in Syria and Turkey between secularism and multiculturalism / Haris Theodorelis-Rigas -- Muhammad Farid: between nationalism and the Egyptian-Ottoman diaspora / Ehud R. Toledano -- Evolution of a North Caucasian community in Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey: the case of Anatolian Ossetians / Georgy Chochiev -- The Italians of Egypt: return to diaspora / Anthony Gorman -- II. Exile, 'return' and resistance. Diaspora tourism and identity: subversion and consolation in Armenian pilgrimages to eastern Turkey / Zeynep Turan and Anny Bakalian -- Stories of identity and resistance: Palestinian women outside the homeland / Maria Holt -- III. Community in host states- establishing new homes. The 'others' within: the Armenian community in Cyprus / Sossie Kasbarian -- Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: worthy lives in unworthy conditions / May Farah -- IV. New diasporas. Malayalee migrants and translocal Kerala politics in the Gulf: re-conceptualising the 'political' / M.H. Ilias -- Diaspora, immobility and the experience of waiting: young Iraqi refugees in Cairo / Elisa Pascucci -- Home in Lebanese diaspora literature / Jumana Bayeh.
Abstract Diaspora studies and Middle Eastern studies come together in this collection of 15 detailed case studies. The contributors demonstrate that concepts central to diaspora such as "homeland", "host state", "exile", "longing", "memory" and "return" have been deconstructed and reinstated with new meaning through each unique diasporic experience. Situating communities within their own narratives of conflict, resistance, war, genocide, persecution, displacement and migration, this collection addresses the ways in which different groups have struggled to claim and negotiate a space for themselves in the Middle East. It shows how these efforts have been aided and hampered by the legal, historical, social, political, economic, colonial and post-colonial peculiarities of the region.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015451835
ISBN9780748686100 (hardback)
ISBN074868610X (hardback)

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