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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