Citizens Abroad - Emigration and the State in the Middle East and North Africa

Informationen zum Autor Laurie A. Brand is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. She is also the author of Jordan's Inter-Arab Relations (1994), Palestinians in the Arab World (1988), and Women, the State and Political Liberalization (1998).This work looks in detail at the state-emigrant relationship in the cases of Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon. A socio-economic and political history of the migration is used as background to a discussion of the evolution of state policies put in place to enable states to control these expatriates. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. States and their citizens abroad; 2. State sovereignty, state resilience; 3. Morocco: subjects or citizens?; 4. Tunisia's expatriates: an integral part of the National Community; 5. Lebanon and Its expatriates: a Bird with Two Wings; 6. Jordan: unwilling Citizens, Problematic Expatriates; Conclusions: transnationalism, security and sovereignty; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Laurie A. Brand, Laurie A. (University of Southern Californi Brand, Brand Laurie A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2008
• EAN: 9780521100915
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10091-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies; Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, International Relations, Middle East, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples