Mexican Mahjar: Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs Under the French Mandate PDF
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The Mexican Mahjar THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Transnational Maronites, Jews, and The Mexican Mahjar Arabs under the French Mandate caMila pasTor UniversiTy of Texas press Austin Copyright © 2017 by University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2017 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713- 7819 utpress.utexas.edu/rp- form ♾ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso Z39.48- 1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). library of congress caTaloging- in- pUblicaTion DaTa Names: Pastor, Camila, author. Title: The Mexican Mahjar : transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French mandate / Camila Pastor. Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2017009440 isbn 978- 1- 4773- 1445- 6 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978- 1- 4773- 1462- 3 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 978- 1- 4773- 1463- 0 (library e- book) isbn 978- 1- 4773- 1464- 7 (non- library e- book) Subjects: lcsh: Arabs—Mexico—History—20th century. | Jews— Mexico—History—20th century. | Maronites—Mexico—History— 20th century. | Mexico—Emigration and immigration. | Middle East—Emigration and immigration. | Mexico—Ethnic relations. | Mexico—Ethnic identity. | Mexico—Civilization—Arab influences. Classification: lcc f1392.a7 p37 2017 | DDc 305.800972—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017009440 doi:10.7560/314456 Para Rania Lawah y Samer El- Bunni THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK conTenTs illUsTraTions anD Tables ix acknowleDgMenTs xi inTroDUcTion 1 Chapter 1 23 The Mexican Mahjar Chapter 2 48 Managing MobiliTy Chapter 3 79 race anD paTronage Chapter 4 103 MigranTs anD The law Chapter 5 133 MoDernisM Chapter 6 153 Making The Mahjar lebanese Chapter 7 176 objecTs of MeMory Chapter 8 213 The arab anD iTs DoUble conclUsion 234 viii conTenTs noTes 241 bibliography 291 inDex 317 illUsTraTions anD Tables illUsTraTions 0.1 Map of the Mashriq (Nimeh, Historia del Líbano, 1945) 7 1.1 Map of Mexican Railways 1890. Carta de los Ferrocarriles de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos 1890, Impreso y grabado por Erhard Hnos., Paris MX09017AGN- 0000021558927, procedente del Archivo de Miguel Rul y Azcarate, Archivo General de la Nación 30 1.2 The Shia family of Mohamed Hassan Ahmad Sabag 41 2.1 The young Isidoro Duek of Aleppo, a Jewish migrant to Mexico, peddling with his indigenous Mexican porter in 1924 54 3.1 Wasela Abuali and her husband Assad Salman Abuali, a Druze couple who returned to Lebanon 100 4.1 The Lebanese- Mexican family of Mohamed Hassan Ahmad Sabag 132 6.1 Meeting of the Committee for Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian Youth 160 6.2 The Druze- Shia wedding of Farid Said and Alia Yaffar, 1950s 165 Tables 1.1 Mashriqi Migrants in Mexico 35 1.2 Mahjari Arrivals in Mexico 1878–1951 37 1.3 Mashriqis in Mexico 44
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