(Re)Constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria: Ethno-Cultural Diversity and the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee Crisis Contributor(s): Migliorino, Nicola (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845453522 ISBN-13: 9781845453527 Publisher: Berghahn Books
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2008 Click for more in this series: Studies in Forced Migration |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
Dewey: 305.891 |
LCCN: 2008015223 |
Series: Studies in Forced Migration |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.13 lbs) 256 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Index |
Review Citations: Chronicle of Higher Education 07/11/2008 pg. 16 Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2008 pg. 52 Choice 01/01/2009 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: For almost nine decades, since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the Genocide and First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity as an ethno-culturally diverse group, in spite of representing a small non-Arab and Christian minority within a very different, mostly Arab and Muslim environment. The author shows that, while in Lebanon the state has facilitated the development of an extensive and effective system of Armenian ethno-cultural preservation, in Syria the emergence of centralizing, authoritarian regimes in the 1950s and 1960s has severely damaged the autonomy and cultural diversity of the Armenian community. Since 1970, the coming to power of the Asad family has contributed to a partial recovery of Armenian ethno-cultural diversity, as the community seems to have developed some form of tacit arrangement with the regime. In Lebanon, on the other hand, the Armenian community suffered the consequences of the recurrent breakdown of the consociational arrangement that regulates public life. In both cases the survival of Armenian cultural distinctiveness seems to be connected, rather incidentally, with the continuing 'search for legitimacy' of the state. |
Contributor Bio(s): Migliorino, Nicola: - Nicola Migliorino earned his PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. His research has focused on Lebanon, Syria, and questions concerning ethno-cultural diversity in the contemporary Arab world. Between 1998 and 2000 he worked for an international NGO assisting Palestine refugees in Syria. He is currently Assistant Professor in International Studies at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. |
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