Publication

2015 - Edinburgh University Press

Language

English

Word Count

104,000 words, Guess

Page Count

416 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10074868610X
  • ISBN-139780748686100
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015451835
  • OCLC Control Number884243257
  • Better World Books9780748686100
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCHB2093.3.A3
  • LCCJV8739 .D57 2015
  • LCCJV8739 .G67 2015

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualising CommunityEdinburgh University Press2015-01-01

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