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Attitudes of immigrant women and men in the Dearborn area toward women's employment and welfareessay 1994 • Aswad, Barbara C.
Arab Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
In the Dearborn, Michigan area a number of factors have operated against women's employment. Some of these major factors discussed by Aswad in this article '…are lack of skills and education; fewer piecemeal or part-time jobs than in the Middle East;...The southeast Dearborn Arab community struggles for survival against urban 'renewal'essay 1974 • Aswad, Barbara C.
Arab Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
In this essay, which deals with the Arab-American community of Southend in Dearborn, Michigan, we see an example of the abuses of 'urban renewal'. In this case it has attempted to destroy a primary community of low and middle income laborers. Aswad c...Yemeni and Lebanese Muslim immigrant women in southeast Dearborn, Michiganessay 1991 • Aswad, Barbara C.
Arab Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Aswad examines the changing roles and different experiences of Arab-American women based on interviews with twenty Yemeni and twenty Lebanese, Muslim immigrant women in Dearborn, Michigan. The change has been both good and bad. On the one hand women ...Challenges to the Arab-American family and ACCEssessay 1996 • Aswad, Barbara C. & Bilgé, Barbara
Arab Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This article discusses the history of a local Arab-American community center in Dearborn, Michigan, called the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCEss). The 200,000 Arab Americans in the Detroit area make it the largest concent...The Southendessay 1983 • Abraham, Sameer Y. et al.
Arab Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
The area of Dearborn, Michigan known as Southend, is home to the oldest and most highly concentrated population of Arab-Muslims in North America. This paper profiles this community, its function as an 'immigrant reception area', and the working class...