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Topographies of Home and Citizenship: Arab-American Activists in the United States

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  • Lynn A Staeheli

    (Institute of Geography, The University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, Scotland)

  • Caroline R Nagel

    (Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, England)

Abstract

Home and citizenship carry contradictory and ambiguous meanings for immigrants as they negotiate lives ‘here’ and ‘there’. We use the concept of topography to analyze the ways in which activists in the Arab-American community draw connections between homes in the United States and in the Middle East. In intensive interviews, we ask activists about how their understanding of home influences their activism and positioning as citizens within the United States. Activists often bring to their work conceptualizations of home and citizenship that are open, and that connect home to broader forces operating at various scales and in more than one place. Rather than pursuing a deterritorialized, transnational citizenship, our respondents forged a politics of home and citizenship whose topography transcended localities and nations, even as they were often rooted in the spaces of both.

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  • Lynn A Staeheli & Caroline R Nagel, 2006. "Topographies of Home and Citizenship: Arab-American Activists in the United States," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 38(9), pages 1599-1614, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:38:y:2006:i:9:p:1599-1614
    DOI: 10.1068/a37412
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    1. Kimberley Kinder, 2016. "Technologies of Translocality: Vegetables, Meat and Dresses in Arab Muslim Detroit," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(5), pages 899-917, September.
    2. Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, 2013. "Ethnic Concentration and Nonprofit Organizations: The Political and Urban Geography of Immigrant Services in Boston, Massachusetts," International Migration Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(3), pages 730-772, September.

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