The Arab-Americans: A Demographic and Cultural Profile.

Abstract

After the passage of the 1965 immigration and Naturalization Act, for the first time in U.S. history, the United States acquired a large group of immigrants from Arab Muslim countries. This immigration is so recent that relatively little is known about it. This thesis is a demographic and cultural examination of the Arab community in America. It asks, who the Arab-Americans are, where they come from, where they go in America, how they are assimilating, and how they organize and act socially, culturally, and politically. A key question is how cohesive they are as a community which is likely to be both a new and distinctive voice in American society and political life.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA316505

Entities

People

  • Kristy D. Le Goff

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Christianity
  • Civil War
  • Demography
  • Employment
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Human Population
  • Minority Groups
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • North America
  • Political Systems
  • Recreation
  • United States
  • Urban Areas

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Canadian European Scientific Immigration and Epilepsy Clearance Studies
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.