Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of History, June 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. / Eminent historians and writers have frequently referred to the important role American missionaries played in acquainting Arabic-speaking people of the Near East with the United States, which subsequently led to their emigration to America. Studies of available letters, reports, and biographies reveal the founding of educational, clinical, and press publications in Syria during the early nineteenth century. These occurred simultaneously with important changes that began to take place within the Near Eastern area. Forerunners, like Pliny Fisk and Levi Parsons in 1819, were followed by prominent American men and women who worked among the people in peace and in times of civil disturbances. The presence of these strangers from a distant country, who made available their services in humane endeavors without political opportunism, enhanced greatly American prestige in the Near East. The few emigrants in the United States between 1849 and 1860 came through this association with Americans. Monseigneur Flavianus Efoury, Superior General of St. John's Convent in Khonchara, Lebanon, sought American Catholic aid to restore the monastery destroyed by civil wars. Antonio Bishallany, also of Mount Lebanon, studied here, hoping to acquire a wider background in Protestant missionary education. One exception to the missionary story during this period is that of Hadji Ali or Hi Jolly. He led a Levantine group to the United States in 1856 when this country introduced the camel caravan into the Arizona territory. There is evidence that there were earlier arrivals of Moors from North Africa who came with the Spaniards. Father Elias al-Mawsili, of Mosul, Iraq, reached Mexico and South America in 1668. Some Rabbis from Asia Minor were in Newport, Rhode Island, in the middle eighteenth century. Algerians may have brought horses here for the Continental army during the American Revolution. By 1856 statistics reveal about 272 Near Easterners in the United States, including North Africans. But these classifications are not certain. However, widespread emigration to the United States occurred only after the American Civil War. [TRUNCATED]

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Queensland, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duquesne University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-200) and index.

This study aims to explore how four Syrians, involved as case managers in Questscope’s mentoring program, describe and experience their lives in Zaatari Refugee Camp. The participants were asked to describe their experiences through qualitative interviews. The results were analyzed through the lens of Antonovsky’s salutogenic theory to examine each participant’s sense of coherence and what activities or people contribute towards a strong SOC. The results show that the participants face many challenges in Zaatari Camp, most notably the feeling that their lives have been reduced to a simple existence in which they are expected to be content with food and shelter. They express the feeling that their hopes and aspirations have come to a standstill and that camp conditions do not allow them to move forward in their lives, such as by completing university. However, their stories also include indications of strong SOC in that the participants make sense of their situation, perceive that there are resources available to deal with their situation, and have incentive to persevere in spite of their circumstances. They describe their work with Questscope, through which they are encouraged to take initiative and responsibility, as helpful and motivating because it builds their confidence, gives them purpose and allows them to hope and move forward.

This thesis argues that, from 1880 to 1935, Syrian immigrants, who comprised an enclave on the Lower West Side of Manhattan in New York City, sought to control the pace and extent of their assimilation into mainstream American society, by distancing themselves from their ethnicity, or by using their ethnicity to their advantage, or by combining both approaches to varying degrees, as they determined individually, rather than monolithically. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Thesis (M.A. in Latin American Studies)--Vanderbilt University, Aug. 2006. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

This qualitative exploratory study sought to understand highly educated Iraqi and Syrian refugees’ perceptions of their learning experiences during economic integration in Luxembourg. This research sought to elucidate how these new migrants learned to integrate in a country with a long tradition of migration but little exposure to Arabic-speaking groups. Further, it sought to explore participants’ experiences of what knowledge, skills, and practices they required, how these were learned, what facilitators and inhibitors they faced, and the impact of identity and religion.In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 refugee participants who had arrived in Luxembourg since 2015 and from 10 professionals working in refugee integration programs. Additional data were collected from critical incident questionnaires and document analysis. Several key findings emerged from interviews. First, participants reported high professional status prior to their forced migration and gratitude toward Luxembourg for its support, despite their many challenges. Second, participants identified linguistic skills, market-relevant experience, Western qualifications, and adaptability as essential for integration, which (apart from academic qualifications) were learned informally. Third, timely professional exposure was a facilitator to integration, while Luxembourg’s multilingualism, job market, work regulations, and discrimination were inhibitors. Fourth, participants reported stigma and invisibility around their refugee identity. Their religious beliefs did not influence their economic integration. This research draws four main conclusions. First, migrants navigated the impact of wars which disrupted their lives alongside an uncertain present, fraught challenges and mixed feelings. Second, while linguistic skills, relevant academic qualifications, and adaptability were important, there exists tension between the non-formal learning refugee integration ecosystem failing to account for the informal learning that new migrants required. Third, while timely professional exposure facilitates economic integration, Luxembourg’s ‘equal-for-all’ (but pragmatically restrictive) frameworks and multilingualism delay new migrants’ integration. Fourth, there is little shared understanding among stakeholders on the impact of identity and religion in economic integration. The recommendations of this study are to (1) champion timely access of migrants to the job market through intensive language training and professional exposure; (2) assess fairness of employment frameworks for non-majority groups; and (3) reflect on an inclusive, fair, and diverse national adult education strategy.

This essay is about use, misuse and non-use of history in politics. To recognize genocide is a use of history that has been established in politics, but also sparked debate. The position of non-use of history in international policy towards Turkey's denial policy has increasingly been replaced by recognition of genocide as a matter of making up with the story, moral consider, and where fundamental issues of culture, identity, history and morality has become guiding element in the discourse behind European expansion and integration policies. A breakthrough for this change is due to the Cold War's end; since the 1980s it has become possible to realize the humanitarianism which has its roots in the Enlightenment humanism underlying the United Nations, and later the EU conventions on human rights and genocide conventions. A genocide concept has become an important discourse in world politics that puts moral pressure on states to act. Parliamentary recognition of the genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians / Syrians / Chaldeans and Pontic Greeks, is partly redress for the victims and their descendants, but also an opportunity for reconciliation.

Submitted by Bruna Rodrigues (bruna92rodrigues@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-10-03T13:15:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCCC.pdf: 1390880 bytes, checksum: fb2842ab93b3176c1782c3ec180d16df (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marina Freitas (marinapf@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-10T14:35:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCCC.pdf: 1390880 bytes, checksum: fb2842ab93b3176c1782c3ec180d16df (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marina Freitas (marinapf@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-10T14:35:53Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCCC.pdf: 1390880 bytes, checksum: fb2842ab93b3176c1782c3ec180d16df (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-10T14:36:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCCC.pdf: 1390880 bytes, checksum: fb2842ab93b3176c1782c3ec180d16df (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-05 / Não recebi financiamento / This study aims to analyze the Syrian and Lebanese immigration to the city of Piracicaba during the period from 1889 to 1935. According to academic studies of the subject, such migration differed from mainstream ethnic came to Brazil mainly because immigration of Arabs was not subsidized by the state and they had a distinctly urban and commercial insertion. The city of Piracicaba has features that differentiate it within the context of overall economic cities in the state of São Paulo, which had already owned a large sugar development in communion with coffee production, which allowed a great economic development for the city. Thus, the work will explore the process of identity construction Syrian-Lebanese in Piracicaba, demonstrating the stereotypes created and uses the term Turkish. We will also analyze the causes that led the Lebanese and Syrians to opt for Piracicaba, besides trying to reconstruct the daily lives of these immigrants in the municipality in question. The work focuses analysis of issues elucidated from the study of lawsuits involving Syrians and Lebanese, the journal of the municipality and authors of the period who wrote about Arab immigrants. Given these circumstances, the article discusses the discursive mechanisms of identity construction and present trajectories of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants that contrast with the hegemonic discourse of the colony and reverberated by many authors and popular culture / O presente trabalho busca analisar a imigração síria e libanesa para o município de Piracicaba durante o período de 1889 a 1935. De acordo com os estudos acadêmicos do tema, tal fluxo migratório se diferenciou das principais correntes étnicas que vieram para o Brasil, principalmente porque a imigração dos árabes não foi subsidiada pelo Estado e eles tiveram uma inserção marcadamente urbana e comercial. A cidade de Piracicaba possui características que a diferenciam dentro do contexto econômico geral dos municípios do Estado de São Paulo, já que teve um amplo desenvolvimento açucareiro em comunhão com a produção cafeeira, o que possibilitou um grande desenvolvimento econômico para a cidade. Assim, o trabalho explorará o processo de construção da identidade sírio-libanesa em Piracicaba, demonstrando os estereótipos criados e os usos do termo turco. Analisaremos também as causas que levaram os libaneses e os sírios a optarem por Piracicaba, além de tentar reconstruir o cotidiano desses imigrantes no município em questão. O trabalho centra a análise das questões elucidadas a partir do estudo de processos judiciais envolvendo sírios e libaneses, de periódico do município e de autores do período que escreveram sobre os imigrantes árabes. Diante dessas circunstancias, o trabalho pretende demonstrar os mecanismos discursivos de construção das identidades e apresentar trajetórias de imigrantes sírios e libaneses que contrastem com o discurso hegemônico da colônia e reverberado por muitos autores e pela cultura popular.