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Dalia Abdelhady

Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

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The Lebanese Diaspora: The Arab Immigrant Experience in New York, Montreal and Paris

Author

  • Dalia Abdelhady

Summary, in English

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 diaspora experiences, the book delves into the ways members of Lebanese diasporic communities move beyond nationality, ethnicity and religion, giving rise to global solidarities and negotiating their social and cultural spaces. The Lebanese Diaspora explores new forms of identities, alliances and cultural expressions, elucidating the daily experiences of Lebanese immigrants and exploring new ways of thinking about immigration, ethnic identity, community, and culture in a global world. By criticizing and challenging our understandings of nationality, ethnicity and assimilation, the book shows that global immigrants are giving rise to new forms of cosmopolitan citizenship.

Department/s

  • Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Document type

Book

Publisher

New York University Press

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences

Keywords

  • Globalization
  • Cultural Expression
  • Identity
  • Transnationalism
  • Immigration
  • Arab immigrants
  • Immigrant Communities
  • Lebanese Foreign countries
  • Libaneser i utlandet

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-0-8147-0734-0