Open AccessA Journey of How The First Arab Immigrants Assimilated into American Cultures: A Sociocultural Study in Alixa Naff's Collection
Author(s) -
Maher Mubdir Abdul Kareem,
Iman Saud Dhannoon
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of research in social sciences and humanities(online)/international journal of research in social sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-4671
pISSN - 2249-4642
DOI - 10.37648/ijrssh.v11i03.023
Subject(s) - immigration , sociocultural evolution , culture of the united states , oral history , political science , gender studies , sociology , history , law , anthropology
Immigration from one location to another in search for a better life has been an ongoinghuman process. The process, as a matter of fact, began before the WWI and it continues tillnow. It was dramatically increased during the era of the wars. Early immigrations involvedunskilled and illiterate people whose common labor was peddling. Peddling vastly enabledimmigrants assimilate into American multi-cultures. It is the base on which the history ofArab American is documented. The paper is aimed to discuss the concept of immigrationfirst, investigating the three distinctive waves of Arab immigrants to the United States,focusing on early migrations and early American cultures, the act of peddling, and how Arabimmigrants assimilated to the American society. The study will answer the questions: Howdid Alixa Naff become American? What experience did she lead? And how did she affect thesociety of Arab Americans? The study originally depended on Naff's Collections which is akey insight of experiences of the first wave Arab Immigrants based on oral real historyinterviewed by immigrants in the new country.