| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 406 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lebanese -- Foreign countries -- Congresses
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Migration, immigration & emigration.
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Sociology & anthropology.
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Political structure & processes.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Emigration and immigration
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| SUBJECT |
Lebanon -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Lebanon
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tabar, Paul.
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Skulte-Ouaiss, Jennifer.
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| LC no. |
2011379729 |
| ISBN |
9781443823517 |
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1443823511 |
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1283141353 |
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9781283141352 |
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9786613141354 |
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6613141356 |
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