Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xi, 231 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780814707340
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9780814707333
Inhalt:
The Lebanese are the largest group of Middle Eastern immigrants in the United States, and Lebanese immigrants are also prominent across Europe and the Americas. Based on over eighty interviews with first-generation Lebanese immigrants in the global cities of New York, Montreal and Paris, this book shows that the Lebanese diasporaolike all diasporasoconstructs global relations connecting and transforming their new societies, previous homeland and world-wide communities. Taking Lebanese immigrants' forms of identification, community attachments and cultural expression as manifestations of diaspo
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Global immigrants : three views on diaspora -- Narratives of identification : between ethnicity and cosmopolitanism -- The power of community : beyond homeland and host society -- Cultures expression : translation, remembrance and global burden -- Conclusion : global predicaments and cosmopolitan quarrels -- Appendix. Profile of respondents -- Notes.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780814705452
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ISBN 9780814707715
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ISBN 9780814707333
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Lebanese Diaspora : The Arab Immigrant Experience in Montreal, New York, and Paris
Sprache:
Englisch
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