Article: BINT ARAB: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States.(Brief Article)

The migration of Arab women has received little attention in discourses of population movements in the Arab World. Prevailing societal ideologies have unquestionably been more confining to women compared to their male-counterparts. Cognizant of the cultural milieu within which migratory phenomenon takes place; Evelyn Shakir's book provided a detailed analysis of the Arab migration to the United States. The book is divided into three parts.

In part one, Shakir constructs a historiography of the first wave of Arab migration 1875-1925. Employing extensive interviews and case histories of Arab women, Shakir elucidates the background, characteristics and the ...

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