Routledge handbook on Middle Eastern diasporas / edited by Dalia Abdelhady and Ramy Aly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abdelhady, Dalia, editor.

Aly, Ramy M. K., editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge handbooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Easterners--Foreign countries.

Middle Easterners.

Muslim diaspora.

Middle East--Emigration and immigration.

Middle East.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 438 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

Handbook on Middle Eastern diasporas

Middle Eastern diasporas

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Dalia Abdelhady is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden. Her work features the application of postcolonial analysis to the sociology of migration. Following a comparative perspective, her work focuses on the meeting point between individual immigrants (and their communities) and institutions in receiving countries (such as schools, labour markets, media and political policies). In addition to a number of journal articles and book chapters, she is the author of The Lebanese Diaspora: The Arab Immigrant Experiences in Montreal, New York and Paris (2011), and co-editor of Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe (2020). Ramy Aly is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Ramy's first monograph Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity was published in 2015 with Pluto Press as part of their celebrated 'Anthropology, Culture and Society Series'. The book is the first ethnographic account of gender, race and class practices among British-born and -raised Arabs in London and attempts to provide an account of the everyday experiences of Arabness in the British capital. Ramy's research interests and publications engage with the anthropology of ethnicity, migration and diaspora; anthropology and media studies; cultural studies; and youth cultures.

Summary:

"Bringing together different strands of research on Middle Eastern Diasporas, this handbook sheds light on diverse approaches to investigating diaspora groups in different national contexts. Asking how diasporans forge connections and means of belonging, the analyses provided shift the reader's gaze to the multiple forms of belonging to both peoples and places. Rather than seeing diasporans as marginalised groups of people longing to return to a homeland, analyses in this volume demonstrates that Middle East diasporans, like other diasporas and citizens alike, are people who respond to major social change and transformations. Those we count as Middle Eastern diasporans, both in the region and beyond, contribute to transnational social spaces, and new forms of cultural expressions. Chapters included cover how diasporas have been formed, the ways that diasporans make and remake homes, the expressive terrains where diasporas are contested, how class, livelihoods and mobility inflect diasporic practices, the emergence of diasporic sensibilities and finally, scholarship that draws our attention to the plurilocality of Middle East diasporas. Offering a rich compilation of case studies, this handbook will appeal to students of Middle Eastern Studies, International Relations, and Sociology, as well as being of interest to policymakers, government departments, and NGOs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Coming to and coming from the Middle East : the unfolding of diaspora / Dalia Abdelhady and Ramy Aly

To be denied a homeland : British mandate policy and the making of the Palestinian diaspora in Chile / Nadim Bawalsa

The AKP government in Turkey and diaspora-making : lobbying, public diplomacy and the erasure of difference / Bengi Bezirgan-Tanis

Critical events and the formation of a Coptic diaspora in North America between Al-Khanka and Al-Zawiya Al-Hamra / Michael Akladios

Opportunities here and there : digital diasporas and the Iranian American election moment / Hajar Yazdiha

The limits of diaspora : double vulnerabilities among Eritreans in Saudi-Arabia / Nicole Hirt and Abdelkader Saleh Mohammad

The lifecycle of Amazigh diaspora activism in Europe : from institutional pioneers to the new ethnicities of the postmodern age / Ángela Suárez-Collado

The diasporic Amazigh movement in France : articulating indigeneity / Jonathan Harris

Valorising some and marginalising others : the diasporic field in the making of Lebanon / Paul Tabar and Wahib Maalouf's

Transnational networks in Tunisia's democratization : Diaspora activism in France and Italy / Alessandra Bonci

Secularism, sectarianism and the transnational connectivity of the Lebanese diaspora in Senegal / Mara Lichtman

The semantics and substance of contesting Turkishness in the diaspora / Pinar Dinc

De-orientalising queer Iranian diasporic identities / Farhang Rouhani

Queering diaspora through queer art : contesting the double binds of homocolonialism and homonationalism / Andrew Gayed

Post-Tarab identities in diaspora : a sonic imaginary of Arab Canada / Jillian Fulton Melanson

Resisting marginalisation, renegotiating gender : intersectional narratives of diaspora experiences / Dalia Abdelhady

Creativity as a contested site of identity-making : careers, gender and diaspora for Sydney's Lebanese Australians / Sherene Idriss

Exploring the creative Israeli diaspora : reading class and profession in the diaspora / Nir Cohen and Steve Gold

Making middle class lives : diaspora and belonging among Pakistanis in Dubai / Gennaro Errichiello

Diasporic before the move : China's Hui Muslim's trade and ties with Iran and Muslimness / Man Xu

A Diasporic Balancing Act : Syrian entrepreneurs in Turkey, Egypt and Jordan / Ching-An Chang

Diaspora Syrians and humanitarian aid in the Syrian civil war / Shawn Flanigan

Return migration and repatriation : myths and realities in the interwar Syrian mahjar / Stacy Fahrenthold

The emergence of diasporic sensibilities among Iraqis in London / Zeinab Saleh

Healed pasts, multiple belongings and multi-focal engagements : a Danish-Palestinian diaspora tour / Nina Gren

Idioms of care : aging and connectivity among older Turkish migrants in Sweden / Öncel Naldemirci

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey after the 2013 coup : organizational renewal and renegotiation in the diaspora / Lucia Ardovini

The Hadrami diaspora : a plurilocal mahjar / Iain Walker

Hadrami connections with the Malay world : creole histories, transcultural Islam and racialisation / Sumit K. Mandal

Towards a new mode of reading Muslim diaspora writing : Muslimness and the homing desire in Abu-Jaber's Crescent and Shafak's The Saint of Incipient Insanities / Neriman Kuyucu

The Armenian Middle East : Boundaries, Pathways and Horizons / Sossie Kasbarian

Negotiating placemaking : private-public spaces and Hinduism in Oman / Sandhya Roa Mehta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 15, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge handbook on Middle Eastern diasporas

ISBN:

9780429266102

0429266103

0429556608

9780429565540

0429565542

9780429561078

0429561075

9780429556609

OCLC:

1316836373

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.