Research Catalog

Title

Islam, multiculturalism and transnationalism : from the Lebanese diaspora / Michael Humphrey.

Author

Humphrey, Michael.

Publication

London ; New York : Centre for Lebanese Studies in association with I.B. Tauris Publishers, ©1998.

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Details

Description

200 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The migration of people is now increasingly about the internationalisation of citizenship rather than the cultural or class homogenisation of people in nation states. The Lebanese provide a particularly rich example of this phenomenon.

Subject

• Lebanese > Foreign countries
• Lebanese > Migrations
• Multiculturalism > Religious aspects > Islam
• Islam and world politics
• Internationalism
• internationalism
• 73.06 ethnography
• 11.80 Islam: general
• Islam
• Libanesen
• Migration
• Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
• Libanezen
• Migratie (demografie)
• Islam
• Multiculturele samenlevingen
• Australien
• Lebanon > Emigration and immigration
• Libanesen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-193) and index.

Contents

Local and Global Cultures -- Migrants or Citizens? -- Cities, Immigrants and Integration -- Multiculturalism -- Past, Present and Future -- The Refugees -- The Setting -- Lebanese Immigration -- Migration and the Urban Process -- Family -- Community -- Proletarianisation -- The Lebanese Heritage -- Making the Lebanese Nation State -- Making the Lebanese: Proletarianisation and Pluralism -- Religion and the Lebanese State -- Unmaking Lebanon: Civil War and Localism -- Lebanese Families -- Kinship Practices -- Unmarried Women -- Wives -- Keeping the Courts out of the Home -- Community and Identity in the City -- Islam, Multiculturalism and the Global City -- Multiculturalism and Urban Consciousness -- Islam and Multiculturalism.

ISBN

• 1860643566
• 9781860643569

OCLC

• ocm40060405
• 40060405
• SCSB-14434398

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library