"This book provides very rich material on long-term experiences of
Arab migrants abroad and contributes to the literature on migration
and Arab disasporas." . JRAI
Most studies on transnational migration either stress
assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of
migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one
Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and
North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational migrants
after long periods of absence, social encapsulation, and stress,
and their ability to construct social networks and reinterpret
traditions in such a way as to mix the old and the new in a
scenario that incorporates both worlds. Focusing on the humanistic
aspects of the migration experience, this book examines questions
such as birth control, women's work, retention of tribal law, and
the changing attitudes of migrants towards themselves, their
families, their home communities, and their nation. It ends with
placing transnational migration from Jordan in a cross-cultural
perspective by comparing it with similar processes elsewhere, and
critically reviews a number of theoretical perspectives that have
been used to explain migration.
Richard T. Antoun is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the
State University of New York at Binghamton. A Fulbright scholar and
past president of the Middle East Studies Association, he has
taught at Indiana University, Manchester University, England, and
as visiting professor at the American University of Beirut, Cairo
University, and the University of Chicago. On the basis of
extensive field research in Jordan and Iran, Antoun has written
three books: Arab Village: A Social Structural Study of a
Transjordanian Peasant Community, Low-Key Politics: Local-Level
Leadership and Change in the Middle East, and Muslim Preacher in
the Modern World. His latest book is comparative and
cross-cultural: Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic
and Jewish Movements."
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