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Between the Ottomans and the Entente : the first World War in the Syrian and Lebanese diaspora, 1908-1925 /

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In 1914, a half million Arab migrants across the Americas watched uneasily as the geopolitical ground trembled beneath their feet. As subjects of an Ottoman Empire then at war with the Triple Entente, Syrian and Lebanese migrants living in Brazil, Argentina and the United States faced new demands fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fahrenthold, Stacy D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Subjects:
Syrians > Foreign countries.
Syria > Emigration and immigration.
Lebanese > Foreign countries.
Lebanon > Emigration and immigration.
World War, 1914-1918 > Refugees.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : between the Ottomans and the Entente
  • Mashriq and Mahjar : a global history of Syrian migration to the Americas
  • The Mahjar of the Young Turks, 1908-1916
  • Former Ottomans in the ranks : pro-entente military recruitment in the Syrian Mahjar, 1916-1918
  • New Syrians abroad : an émigré project for a United States mandate in Syria, 1918-1920
  • Travelling Syrians, immovable Turks : passport fraud and migrant smuggling at the close of empire, 1918-1920
  • Mandating the Mahjar : the French Mandate and greater Lebanon's census of 1921.