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A Journey of How The First Arab Immigrants Assimilated into American Cultures: A Sociocultural Study in Alixa Naff's Collection

Dr. Maher Mubdir Abdul Kareem, Iman Saud Dhannoon

Volume: 11 Issue: 3 2021

Abstract:

Immigration from one location to another in search for a better life has been an ongoing human process. The process, as a matter of fact, began before the WWI and it continues till now. It was dramatically increased during the era of the wars. Early immigrations involved unskilled and illiterate people whose common labor was peddling. Peddling vastly enabled immigrants assimilate into American multi-cultures. It is the base on which the history of Arab American is documented. The paper is aimed to discuss the concept of immigration first, investigating the three distinctive waves of Arab immigrants to the United States, focusing on early migrations and early American cultures, the act of peddling, and how Arab immigrants assimilated to the American society. The study will answer the questions: How did Alixa Naff become American? What experience did she lead? And how did she affect the society of Arab Americans? The study originally depended on Naff's Collections which is a key insight of experiences of the first wave Arab Immigrants based on oral real history interviewed by immigrants in the new country.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v11i03.023

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