{"product_id":"the-mexican-mahjar-transnational-maronites-jews-and-arabs-under-the-french-mandate-hardback-9781477314456","title":"The Mexican Mahjar; Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs Under the French Mandate (Hardback) 9781477314456","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Mexican Mahjar\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTransnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs Under the French Mandate\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCamila Pastor (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477314456, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e[A] contribution to our understanding of transnational networks, the role of the Levantine migrants to Mexico as well as an important chapter in modern Mexican history.\u003c\/div\u003e (Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online) \u003cdiv\u003ePastor's elucidation of migrant experiences, and their representation by various social actors, is essential reading for understanding the often-hidden diversity of modern Mexico…[\u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Mahjar\u003c\/i\u003e] is a powerhouse.\u003c\/div\u003e (Mashriq \u0026amp; Mahjar) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Mahjar\u003c\/i\u003e...is an innovative book with creative reading of sources and well-designed chapters...Such documentary richness and its careful reading lead to important conclusions about culture transformation and Mahjaris' active agency.\u003c\/div\u003e (Latin American Research Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Khayrallah Migration Studies Prize, Moise Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMigration from the Middle East brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the time the Ottoman political system collapsed in 1918, over a third of the population of the Mashriq, i.e. the Levant, had made the transatlantic journey. This intense mobility was interrupted by World War I but resumed in the 1920s and continued through the late 1940s under the French Mandate. Many migrants returned to their homelands, but the rest concentrated in Brazil, Argentina, the United States, Haiti, and Mexico, building transnational lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Mahjar\u003c\/i\u003e provides the first global history of Middle Eastern migrations to Mexico. Making unprecedented use of French colonial archives and historical ethnography, Camila Pastor examines how French colonial control over Syria and Lebanon affected the migrants. Tracing issues of class, race, and gender through the decades of increased immigration to Mexico and looking at the narratives created by the Mahjaris (migrants) themselves in both their old and new homes, Pastor sheds new light on the creation of transnational networks at the intersection of Arab, French, and Mexican colonial modernisms. Revealing how migrants experienced mobility as conquest, diaspora, exile, or pilgrimage, \u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Mahjar\u003c\/i\u003e tracks global history on an intimate scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIllustrations and Tables\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. The Mexican Mahjar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Managing Mobility\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Race and Patronage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Migrants and the Law\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Modernism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Making the Mahjar Lebanese\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. Objects of Memory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. The Arab and Its Double\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589127074072,"sku":"9781477314456","price":56.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-mexican-mahjar-transnational-maronites-jews-and-arabs-under-the-french-mandate-hardback-9781477314456","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}