essay
The Yemeni immigrant community of Detroit: background, emigration, and community life
Arabs in the New World : studies on Arab-American communities • Detroit, Mich. • Published In 1983 • Pages: 109-134
By: Abraham, Nabeel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the growing community of Yemeni immigrants in the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area who arrived primarily during the 1960s and 1970s. The article describes the Yemeni settlement in Detroit, including information on their occupational patterns, residential distribution, and social environment. Discussion then turns to the immigrants' background in Yemen before emigration, followed by a description of lifestyles and community life in the Detroit community, presented within the context of the immigrants' overall goals and attitudes toward the host society (p. 110).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Settlement patterns
- Labor supply and employment
- Ethnic stratification
- Sodalities
- Community structure
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Arab Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Sept. 1975 - March 1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960s - 1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Detroit, Michigan, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Nabeel Abraham
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-134)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83001401
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arab Americans