California, 2017
In 1904 immigrants from the island of Marmara established the first mutual aid organization from the Ottoman Empire in the United States. It was established in Los Angeles, California and […]
Fieldwork Announcement – eastern Pennsylvania May 10 – 19, 2023
Dr. Yiorgo Topalidis will visit communities in eastern Pennsylvania between 10 – 19, 2023 to conduct interviews with descendant of migrants from Asia Minor, eastern Thrace or the islands of […]
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Fieldwork Announcement – Florida
If you are located in Florida and you are a descendant of migrants from Asia Minor, eastern Thrace or the islands of Imbros, Tenedos or those in the Sea of […]
Michigan, 2017
From left to right, these three refugee children from Buca (pronounced Bu-ja), Turkey, a town southeast of Smyrna (modern Izmir), are Irene Sklavou, Efstratia Hatziathanasiou, and Emanuel Sklavos, their brother […]
Fieldwork Texas, May 2022
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the friends we made during our visit to Texas. In fourteen days, we traveled 1023 miles, visited four cities, […]
Oregon, 2018
This past May I visited the Pacific Northwest to conduct interviews with descendants of immigrants from the former Ottoman Empire. During the next few weeks and months, I will share […]
Pennsylvania, 2023
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Return to Smyrna: Transnationalism and Citizenship in a Time of Social Collapse
On September 13, 1922, a great fire erupted in the Armenian neighborhood of the city of Smyrna — modern Izmir — Turkey.[1] The city’s inhabitants fled their homes in a […]
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The Acropolis and the Madonna: A Case Study of Refugee Deportation
The displacement of Syrian refugees to European shores over the past five years has led US public opinion to revisit themes from the academic discourse about immigration. Isolationism, nativism, and […]
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