Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience

Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience
ISBN-10
0809318962
ISBN-13
9780809318964
Series
Becoming American
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
412
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
SIU Press
Author
Alixa Naff

Description

Alixa Naff explores the experiences of Arabic-speaking immigrants to the United States before World War II, focusing on the pre-World War I pioneering generation that set the pattern for settlement and assimilation. Unlike many immigrants who were driven to the United States by dreams of industrial jobs or to escape religious or economic persecution, these artisans and owners of small, disconnected plots of land came to America to engage in the enterprise of peddling. Most of these immigrants planned to stay two or three years and return to their homelands wealthier and prouder than when they left.

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