Khalil Jerdak-Lebanese Diaspora

 

The word Diaspora comes from Greek (διασπορά, "scattering, dispersion), which means the movement or migration of a group of people, such as those sharing a national and/or ethnic identity, away from an established or ancestral homeland. When capitalized, the Diaspora refers to the exile of the Jewish people and Jews living outside ancient or modern day Israel.

1. Global Belongings: The Lebanese Diasporic Community in New York, Montreal and Paris." All Academic Inc. (Abstract Management, Conference Management and Research Search Engine). Web. 15 Oct. 2010. 
www.allacademic.com/meta/p110127_index.html

The site discusses the ways that Diaspora extends our understanding of immigrant communities. As a type of community, Diaspora communities demonstrate three-way relationships that consist of homeland or country of origin, the host society or country of residence, and the larger Diaspora community that extends over a number of nation-states. The site talks about the Lebanese Diaspora in New York, Montreal, and Paris. . Following a brief theoretical discussion of Diaspora, this paper focuses on the analysis of Lebanese immigrant forms of attachment. Also, the site discusses the forms of global solidarity that members of the Lebanese immigrant community seek and maintain. However, and according to the Lebanese immigrants experience they believe that they are more capable of bridging the particular interests that are based on national or ethnic attachments and the universal ones that are not tied to a territory or a nation-state.

2. "Lebanese identities: between cities, nations and trans-nations". Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ). Web.15 Oct, 2010. <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2501/is_1_26/ai_n6145318/>

The site discusses the Lebanese Diaspora among the nations and between cities. It illustrates the reason of that Diaspora since the Ottoman period (1920) till nowadays because of the nationalist politics leading to where distance and time no longer attenuate communication and social identification. Also, the it discusses and asks questions about the Diaspora such as “So what constitutes the Lebanese Diaspora? Is there a Lebanese Diaspora nostalgic for home? Do those who identify as Lebanese in the Diaspora share the same imagined homeland? Is the idea of the concept of the Lebanese Diaspora just too historically, culturally and politically diverse to be of much use? To what extent does Diaspora identity continue to shape by transnational nationalist politics after the war?” Moreover, this shows that the Lebanese communities can be found in various places around the world such as Canada, different states in United States, Argentine, Africa, and lastly Brazil. 

3.  Lebanese Migrants in Australia and New Zealand: Web. 16 Oct, 2010

             <http://alhsv.org.au/resources_lebaneseinaus.html>

                        The site discusses in general many segments such the background of the Lebanese in Australia, Occupations and Education, Lebanese Community Organizations, Religious Organizations, and the Media.