(Audiobook) So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico by Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp

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So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico
Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico
by Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp

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• Format: paperback, 272 pages
• Author: Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp
• Language: english
• Release date: July 1, 2007
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Genres: history
• ISBN: 9780292716414 (0292716419)

About The Book

Middle Eastern immigration to Mexico is one of the intriguing, untold stories in the history of both regions. In So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp presents the fascinating findings of her extensive fieldwork in Mexico as well as in Lebanon and Syria, which included comprehensive data collection from more than 8,000 original immigration cards as well as studies of decades of legal publications and the collection of historiographies from descendents of Middle Eastern immigrants living in Mexico today.

Adding an important chapter to studies of the Arab diaspora, Alfaro-Velcamp’s study shows that political instability in both Mexico and the Middle East kept many from fulfilling their dreams of returning to their countries of origin after realizing wealth in Mexico, in a few cases drawing on an imagined Phoenician past to create a class of economically powerful Lebanese Mexicans. She also explores the repercussions of xenophobia in Mexico, the effect of religious differences, and the impact of key events such as the Mexican Revolution.

Challenging the post-revolutionary definitions of mexicanidad and exposing new aspects of the often contradictory attitudes of Mexicans toward foreigners, So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico should spark timely dialogues regarding race and ethnicity, and the essence of Mexican citizenship.

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