The Mexican Mahjar: Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate

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Migration from the Middle East brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Americas within the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the point 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 used to be interrupted by World War I but resumed within the 1920s and continued throughout the late 1940s under the French Mandate. Many migrants returned to their homelands, but the remainder concentrated in Brazil, Argentina, the US, Haiti, and Mexico, building transnational lives.

The Mexican Mahjar 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 keep watch over over Syria and Lebanon affected the migrants. Tracing issues of class, race, and gender throughout the decades of increased immigration to Mexico and taking a look on 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 on the intersection of Arab, French, and Mexican colonial modernisms. Revealing how migrants experienced mobility as conquest, diaspora, exile, or pilgrimage, The Mexican Mahjar tracks global history on an intimate scale.

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