Gendering the Chain Migration Thesis: Women and Syrian Transatlantic Migration, 1878-1924
| Autor: | Sarah M. A. Gualtieri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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education.field_of_study
Unconscious mind Poverty media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Immigration Patriarchy Population Gender studies Historiography Development Consumption (sociology) Political Science and International Relations Sacrifice Sociology education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 24:69-81 |
| ISSN: | 1548-226X 1089-201X |
| DOI: | 10.1215/1089201x-24-1-69 |
| Popis: | One wonders what went through Kamila Jubrans mind as she realized that death had come to claim her. She had traveled so far in the hopes of securing a better life for herself and for her children. Instead she had watched her oldest and youngest succumb to the ravages of consumption while another toiled nightly to help make ends meet. Only her precocious son Kahlil having already caught the eye of a Boston patron seemed to have a hopeful future ahead of him. And so Kamilas last breath on the afternoon of 28 June 1903 might have been one of resignation. She had left a life of punishing debt in Mount Lebanon survived the long fetid journey in steerage class and made it past the inspectors at Ellis Island. In the end the difficulties and obstacles in the "new world" had been ones she had always confronted in the "old": sickness poverty and death. It is impossible to know for certain what Kamilas dying thoughts really were although Kahlil (future literary innovator and celebrated author of The Prophet) would later portray her as a heroic figure of self- sacrifice and suggest that she embraced death with serenity. Kamilas daughter Marianna noted only that her mother was drugged and unconscious before she died. Amid the uncertainties over how Kamila interpreted her experience of migration in the final hours as the long journey from Bsharri to America ended in a crowded Boston tenement building one point is clear: she does not fit the image that dominates the historiography of Syrian migration to the United States that of the bachelor blazing a trail for subsequent migrants to follow. Kamila had left behind her drink-prone debt-ridden husband and traveled to Boston in the company of her children. The only thing she appears to have followed to America was a desire to improve her familys condition. (excerpt) |
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