Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 231 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780814707340
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9780814707333
Content:
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
Note:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814705452
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814707715
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814707333
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Lebanese Diaspora : The Arab Immigrant Experience in Montreal, New York, and Paris
Language:
English
URL:
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