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Identifying as Arab in Canada

A Century of Immigration History

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While “Arabs” now attract considerable attention – from media, the state, and sociological studies – their history in Canada remains little known. Identifying as Arab in Canada begins to rectify this invisibilization by exploring the migration from Machrek (the Middle East) to Canada from the late 19th century through the 1970s. Houda Asal breathes life into this migratory history and the people who made the journey, and examines the public, collective existence they created in Canada in order to understand both the identity Arabs have constructed for themselves here, and the identity that has been constructed for them by the Canadian state.

Using archival research, media analysis, laws and statistics, and a series of interviews, Asal offers a thorough examination of the institutions these migrants and their descendants built, and the various ways they expressed their identity and organized their religious, social and political lives. Identifying as Arab in Canada offers an impressively researched, but accessibly written, much-needed glimpse into the long history of the Arab population in Canada.

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Houda Asal

Houda Asal holds a PhD in socio-history. Her doctoral thesis was published by Presses de l’Université de Montréal in 2016 as, “Se dire arabe au Canada. Un siècle d’histoire migratoire.” Asal has written and spoken extensively about this history and contemporary racism in Canada and France.

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In the introduction, the author frames the book as a history of the Arab immigrant experience in Canada, covering the migratory trends, institutions the immigrants built in Canada, and their … 10 $1.00

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This first chapter covers the first period of the scope of the study, beginning with the end of the nineteenth century to the 1920s, when immigrants to Canada were leaving the Ottoman Empire, … 16 $1.60

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The second chapter, Pioneers and Adventurers, looks first at the identities of the first wave of Arab immigrants to North America. Then it considers the geographic spread and presence of this … 20 $2.00

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The third chapter begins the second period of the authors study period, from 1930 to 1950, the period of establishment. Collective organizing began in 1930. This happened through English language … 28 $2.80

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In chapter four, The Struggle Against Anti-Asiatic Migration Laws, the author first details the efforts by the Syrian community in Canada to remove Syrians from the Asiatic category of migrants. … 20 $2.00

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Chapter five, Complex Restructuring of the Community, covers the years of transition from 1950 to 1967, when Canada began to gradually open its borders to immigration with new laws and selection … 20 $2.00

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Chapter six, Fragmented Political Mobilizations, explores the increasing fragmentation in the Arab secular communities and organizations in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, often around terminology … 16 $1.60

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Chapter seven, Coordinating Struggles, begins with the fourth period of the author’s study, 1967 to 1975, looking at Arab organizing in Canada after the immigration laws changed in 1967. … 34 $3.40

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Chapter eight, Organizing Under Suspicion, traces the political organizing activities of the Canadian Arab Federation, including its major organizing goals of influencing Canada’s foreign … 29 $2.90

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The Conclusion summarizes the scope of the book, focusing on tying together the historical continuities through the hundred year arc of the book, as well as commenting on the visibility, public … 11 $1.10

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The Appendices include biographical notes of those covered in the book, a list of the primary research sources, and an extract from the McDonald Commission Report. 12 $1.20