Beyond refuge in Arab Detroit / edited by Yasmeen Hanoosh, Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanoosh, Yasmeen S., editor.

Howell, Sally, editor.

Shryock, Andrew, editor.

Series:

Great Lakes books

Great Lakes books series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab Americans--Michigan--Detroit.

Arab Americans.

Chaldean Catholics--Michigan--Detroit.

Chaldean Catholics.

Detroit (Mich.)--Ethnic relations.

Detroit (Mich.).

Physical Description:

ix, 470 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Detroit's Arab and Chaldean communities are now over a century old. Their neighborhoods, business districts, and cultural influence continue to grow. Whether Muslim or Christian, Yemeni, Iraqi, Palestinian, or Lebanese, these Detroiters are building new lives and new worlds in distinctive spaces that cannot be described simply as immigrant or refugee, religious or ethnoracial. In Beyond Refuge in Arab Detroit, a multidisciplinary team of nineteen contributors considers how these worlds are connected to other times and places and what new identities are emerging in them. They explore US census counts, local politics, activism, refugee resettlement, patterns of racism and Islamophobia, and tense interactions between new immigrants and the well established. The contributors warn that, despite its deep roots and dynamism, Arab Detroit is at risk. As its residents struggle for change on their own terms, they no longer perceive greater Detroit as a sanctuary or temporary home, but as a place where Arabs and Chaldeans can live permanently as citizens"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: vital and vulnerable: worldmaking in Arab Detroit / Andrew Shryock, Sally Howell, and Yasmeen Hanoosh

A sociodemographic overview of diverse communities in Arab Detroit / Kristine J. Ajrouch, Jen'nan G. Read, and Jessica S. West

Muslim, Christian Arab, and Chaldean paths to political integration: representation, participation, and activism in Metro Detroit / Abdulkader Sinno

In pain and solidarity: four narratives from Michigan's twelfth congressional district / Ghassan Zeineddine

Crisis and connection: the Yemen War and new geographies of belonging for Yemeni Americans in Hamtramck, Michigan / Alisa Perkins

Majority now: tipping points and the right to be different in Dearborn / Sally Howell and Andrew Shryock

On the front lines: environmental justice in Dearborn's Southend / Natalie Sampson, Carmel E. Price, and Samraa Luqman

Undesirably loud: overcoming sexual stigmatization and violence within Arab Detroit / Salam Aboulhassan

Digital Dearborn / William Lafi Youmans

It's good to have friends like that: building trust with Chaldean and Syrian party store owners in Metro Detroit / Vance Alan Puchalski

Soccer moms and social justice: concerted cultivation among affluent Arab Muslim American families / Rebecca A. Karam

Syrian refugees on the margins: gendered and racialized excursions in homemaking / Özge Savaș and Salma Al-Midani

Unsettled lives: Iraqi refugees and the effort to reconstruct self and community in Dearborn and Detroit / Sally Howell and Rose Wellman

Chaldean safe haven dreams: whiteness, Islamophobia, and the Nineveh Plains / Yasmeen Hanoosh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814351161

0814351166

OCLC:

1511786488

Publisher Number:

90101651861