MIGRANTS

In 1975, the Governments of Iraq and Egypt signed a bilateral agreement according to which Egyptian peasant families would be resettled in Iraq. One hundred settlers and their families arrived in 1976 in the Khalsa Settlement south of Baghdad, where each was given a house and th…

This thesis examines how the Uyghur migrants in Guangzhou construct their ethnicity. I deconstruct the voice behind the state discourse, and analyze three binary relationships between the Uyghur migrants and the state, between the Uyghur migrants and the Han, and between the Uyg…

Chicago in the early twentieth century (1910s) and Istanbul later in the century (1950s), each experienced an influx of rural migrants, a process that challenged the ability of the city and its residents to cope with the ensuing problems. Though separated by time and place, Chic…

Based upon extensive ethnographic research and historical sources, this dissertation is an ethnography of global religious movements and the localization of transnational religious institutions in Dakar. I portray the lives of members of three distinct religious groups and their…