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Middle Eastern immigration to Mexico and the history thereof is not a very prominent area of study among .

Middle Eastern immigration to Mexico and the history thereof is not a very prominent area of study among "general" scholars and students of history but Professor Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp introduces the reader to this history in seven analytical and descriptive chapters that will give us the minimum and necessary dose of knowledge needed. Often the history of Mexico that we study and learn is political and economical and linear. However, as the subtitle of the book "Middle Eastern Immigrants In Modern Mexico" reflects, Dr. Alfaro-Velcamp only focuses on the recent immigration from the Middle East to Mexico.

So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immi-grants in Modern Mexico by Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp(2007) University of Texas Press, Austin, TX,USA, 272 p. ontemporary Mexico is, for most, the home to the majority of migrants (and mostly undocumented migrants). ontemporary Mexico is, for most, the home to the majority of migrants (and mostly undocumented migrants) living in the US. Those migrants are often portrayed as young, poor Mestizo (Span-ish speaking, non-indigenous) men seeking wage. work and shar-ing an unproblematic history of movement that is rooted in the bracero program and Mexico’s economic crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.

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.

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.

The revolutions, elections, and nation-building events of Mexico are all incorporated. SaraJane Tompkins, Digest of Middle East Studies (Spring 2008).

Middle Eastern immigration to Mexico is one of the intriguing, untold .

Middle Eastern immigration to Mexico is one of the intriguing, untold stories in the history of both regions. Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp is Assistant Professor of History at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. She has published numerous scholarly articles on Middle Eastern immigrants who settled in Latin America. Since the book aims to broaden notions of mexicanidad and illustrate the diversity of Middle Eastern immigrants, the use of Allah (God in Arabic) extends to the beliefs of the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Druze immigrants from the Middle East who arrived and eventually settled in Mexico.

There is an immediate indication on the back cover of Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp’s So far from Allah, So close to. .Immigration Mexico Nationalism.

There is an immediate indication on the back cover of Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp’s So far from Allah, So close to Mexico that this is field-altering scholarship-the general topics of the book for classification purposes are listed as Middle Eastern Studies and Latin American Studies. The equating of these two Area Studies topics promises a re-examination of traditional approaches to the scholarship that exists on the Middle East and Latin America.

So far from Allah, so close to Mexico: Middle Eastern immigrants in modern Mexico, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, University of Texas Press, 2007, p. 14. ^ (in Spanish) Arab immigration. Antiochian Orthodox of Santiago to Chile.

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