why did lebanese migrate to america

One census I read, stated they owned the land. This article is authored by Dr. Akram Khater, Directorof the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies and Khayrallah Distinguished Professor of Lebanese Diaspora Studies, and Professor of History at NC State. Prior to the First World War, Lebanese emigrated to the United States, Canada, Australia, Africa, and Latin America. Would be interested to know if record keeping was accurate in the mills. However, this census only represents one Ottoman province from which the early wave of Syrians came, ignoring other areas like Damascus, Hama, Aleppo, and Bethlehem. In addition to coming to the US, another 200,000 Syrians emigrated to South and Central America. Best, Kristin Shamas. There are three main sources for counting how many Levantine immigrants came: 1913 Ottoman Census: this source provides the most granular data, counting those who emigrated from each village and district in Mount Lebanon. The chart below shows the age of Syrian immigrants according to the 1911 Reports of the Immigration Commission. If anyone has any hints of where I could find any of the Basha family in Lebanon, I would be forever appreciative! This may be a result of overflow of immigrants who originally settled in South and Central America but decided to relocate to the United States via the Mexican border. You can help create better awareness by focusing on the assault part and help heal the sexual by ending the stigma. It provides me with a logical explanation of the reasons of our ancestors emigration to the Americas. We are fairly confident in the accuracy of the census data. My grandfather, Amin Abbas Nasser (Nasr), came to America twice. It appears the name Katter has not changed spelling. Their schools and narratives of Amirka painted a prosperous image of the United States and allowed for the mental leap needed to depart from home and hearth. For some reason they seemed to have disconnected from the homeland after arriving in North America. This is so interesting. She bought a young child with her. The decision by Saudi Arabia to adopt an economic strategy independent of the United States could have significant implications for the U.S. and its relationship with the Middle East. WebThe first Lebanese immigrants arrived in the United States in the late 1870s. We lived there with my grandparents for a few years. Together, they give us the first clear demographic portrait of the earliest Lebanese immigrants to the United States. I have a great-aunt who traveled with her husband, in the early 1900s, through Ellis Island on their way to work at the Ford Motor Company in Detroit. My great-great-great grandfather was called Assad Mahowed. Various official and social discriminatory practices prevented new arrivals from being employed. His Dad was a merchant, mostly textiles. Proteins did not migrate Very dense gel even the smallest proteins could not enter into the gel pores. So relieved to find a lead on a family Im researching/genealogy. Thank you for clarity and good illustrations. Toni is out in CA. They had crosses tattooed on their wrist to mark that event in their life. Razook, age 22 had been in the country five years and lived in an American household. Not only does it get harder to track families and lineage (with records being scarce), but I have found that a lot of migration appeared to have happened in our family within the Mount Lebanon/Syria area. Sunni Lebanese move more to the Gulf states and Maronites to France? Elias is said to be the first Lebanese person to come to Charlottetown, PEI. Surprised by how few were documented in NH. My family surnames are : Hage and Nicholas. The Early Lebanese in America: A Demographic Portrait, 1880-1930 In recent years, civil conflict in Lebanon has been a further impetus for immigration to the United States. Ive always been curious about my surname as its originally spelled Doumit (been told its pronounced dow-mit) but when they immigrated they changed it to Doumitt (Pronounced Doo-mitt). The war originally started in part due to how the government was set up in Lebanon and how the opposing ideas of the various factions that represented different people in Lebanon. The problem has been that most information compiled by researchers was based on rough estimates that, more often than not, provided wildly divergent numbers leaving one more perplexed than informed. Thus, it is possible that later census years, such as 1940 and 1950, would reflect a higher population of Lebanese-Americans in New Hampshire. My Great Grandfather immigrated to the US in 1918 through Ellis Island and, to my knowledge, had always maintained that he was forced to do so due to persecution of Lebanese Christians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. But while there was not a singular reason for the immigration of everyone, the majority left for economic reasons. Hello Linda, my name is Anne Seba Hakim and my parents in law were from Bsharri, Mount Lebanon. Excellent article. Hi Bob- My husbands family immigrated 1898 per the 1900 US census- in Nashville, Tn. Especially since their descendants now occupy political positions such as governor and senator. For example, Rev. It is part of a planned series of article that explore the early Lebanese immigrant experience. We were raised to believing we were Syrians, and by the time I was a teen in the mid in the late seventies, I was told I was Lebanese Its a very interesting history, I have my dna done and I am 50% Levian.I often wonder why they left, they were very strong religious people, two of my great Aunts came to the US and Canada and joined the convent. This family went to America and they wrote back[to say that] they made $1000 [in three years]When people of Ayn Arab saw that one man made $1000, all of Ayn Arab rushed to come to AmericaLike a gold rush we left Ayn Arab, there were 72 of us[6]. By the 1930 census, it showed two generations living on Garrison Road. My father was born in New Mexico, Jose Ramon Tabet, he was the son of Josifina Silva and Raymond Tabet, the Tabet family were from Lebanon, I dont know much more about them because my grandfather Raymond Tabet died in an automobile accident when my father was 1 or 2 years old. The name has been impossible to tracklost in translation as they didnt read or write in English. Check out our blog on the Lebanese in South Africa, Albinos in the Lager: https://lebanesestudies.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2016/06/21/albinos-in-the-laager-being-lebanese-in-south-africa/. I recently got my hands on a bound Chater family history which was put together by a distant cousin about 30 years ago. Bay, We would love to hear more about your familys history! My dad did a bunch of geneology before he passed in 2020 so most of this info is new to me by only a few years. I am on Ancestry, familysearcch & 23andme & others and have been unable to trace Michael JeBailey & Amelia Joseph(great grandparents) back to Lebanon. Toni is out in CA. They raised their children directly across the street from St Elias Maronite Catholic Church. Went to St Louis Gonzaga Church.. Miss those days . Am going there in May for my first Lebanese reunioni ever. The move was a historic endeavor that could have produced much-needed data on MENA communities, their needs, and their contributions. My grand grand parents came from Lebanon and Syria, they were young after married and came for honeymoon to Americas and stayed in Venezuela between 1890-1920. Our last name went through a couple iterations in the census remaining a mystery to this day. Hi Anne Seba Australia especially Sydney has a lot of people from Bsharri in our community Taouk, Succar, Geagea, Rahmi etc. We wanted to know why. This way out of impending poverty (for, generally speaking, only those with some money could afford to. Yusuf Bey, the Ottoman consul in Barcelona, remarked in an 1889 report to his government in Istanbul: When questioned why they had to leave their homes in such large numbers, they invent stories about the massacre of their wives and children all to increase the compassion and thus the alms they can elicit. Early immigrant writers like Abraham Rihbany, George Haddad and Philip Hitti further portrayed Christians in Mount Lebanon as defenseless victims of persecution oppressed by ruthless Turks, in order to garner support for their vision of an independent Syria and Lebanon. I have just connected with relatives in Birmingham. Grandma would never address her tattoo even when asked. All rights reserved. Would be interesting for me to check the Dover, NH city records to know the exact year my great grandparents purchased a historic lot of land and began farming. ( spelling likely wrong. Nagib was translated to Joseph once he was here. The story first then (and still told by some now) went something like this: oppression by the Ottoman government (which controlled the region), and attacks by neighboring Druzes (a heterodox sect of Islam) and Muslims made life untenable for these peasants and town folks and drove them from their homes. They became peddlers with a horse pulled wagon in S.E. I believe Khalils father was Abdallah Abou Haider, can you provide any hints or leads on how to research further family history in Lebanon? He said he was Syrian,but that was before Lebanon became a separate country. Hi Gary, I have been researching the Syro-Lebanese in Oklahoma for OU and I have some general information on your familymaybe no more than youve found out by now, but I would happy to share what I know. Oklahoma. He originally settled in Gulfport Mississippi and then Bogalusa Louisiana. For revenue purposes the Ottoman state actually preferred that the Christians should pay an exemption tax (first called iane-i asker military assistance, and then bedel-i asker military payment-in-lieu) of their own, rather than serve.[3] Even after 1909, when the Young Turks government tried to enforce equality in conscription, non-Muslims in Mount Lebanon retained exemption because of the special rule governing this particular Ottoman district. They came to South America in different generations. The wars in Palestine in the late 1940s that led to the establishment of Israel and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians led many to seek You are most welcome. Kayleigh Clark, the 17-year-old from Sumrall, did not appear on "American Idol" this week. I know his was Catholic and would like to connect with one of the churches I have records about in Lebanon. However, the census data only represents the population at a young stage in the midst of rapidly growing as the children of immigrants were having children of their own in the 1920s-1940s. My Great Grandfather Elias Joseph Moukarzel left Lebanon ( Syria) in the early 1900s for South Africa.I never met him but my gran would always say he left Lebanon because of family issuesand he would speak about bloodshed.His two cousins Salloum and Naoum left for the USA and started the Al-Hoda newspaperI still have a few letters written between my great grandfather and his cousinsI have always wondered why he would come to South Africa and I dont know if he had any siblings.so much I wish I could know! Between 1880 and 1930 tens of thousands of immigrants left the Eastern Mediterranean and traveled to the United States. Regards. The 1965 Immigration Act The second major event affecting Detroits Arab-American community begins with a change in U.S. immigration policy. Re the tattoos my great grandmother and grandmother had tattoos on their wrists / hands that were documented when they registered as aliens in 1939 in Australia. I have found documents from Mexico, which says Catar. Found your review informative and helpful in pursuing my familys history at the turn of the 20th century from Baskinta and Taibe. Im not sure what part of Lebanon they were from but the family was Christian, possibly Maronite I assume from our namesake Saint Doumit. Id be grateful for any insight you have on the subject. My family was incredibly proud of our heritage in private, but desperately wanted to appear American in public. They settled in upstate New York and Cincinnati, Ohio respectively. Anything you could help w/ info etc. and Im curious to see Anthony Tabbits descendants. This line of work prompted them to embark on Americas backroads and leave behind their ethnic community enclaves. Others, especially around the turn of the 20th century, sought industrial jobs in New England and Michigan factories. He had a second family in SA of which I am a descendent. We wanted to know why. I believe they were traveling w/ members of the Shediac(Chidiac) family. Expert Help. this source provides the most granular data, counting those who emigrated from each village and district in Mount Lebanon. Their surnames were Abdn, Taier (Tayer), Califf, and Derre. Any info you have would be much appreciated. By the early 1890s, as many silk factories were being shuttered, the decision to emigrate appeared as the most financially viable alternative for many. In fact, there is no evidence whatsoever, beyond few Christians who served in the office corps, that any non-Muslims served in the Ottoman army before WWI. Many ranged even farther. Thank you, Dr. Khater. Mount Lebanon was full of internal turmoil that, more often than not, turned into civil In comparison, the same report provided that only 1.6% of the native white population of the US was illiterate, while illiteracy among the foreign born population in this same time period was only 12.6%. That not only Christians were leaving, and that there is no evidence of any sustained or systematic acts of oppression or violence during the height of immigration wave (1880-1914) casts serious doubt on the persecution narrative. Khater is a professor of history at North Carolina State University and has published extensively on Lebanese migration to the United States. As important as it is to note counties with high populations, we have to give serious consideration to counties with a single or very few immigrants, a phenomenon seen most commonly in 1900 and 1910 censuses. Finally, improvements in health care in Mount Lebanon (especially the introduction of vaccination) nearly doubled the population between 1860 and 1911 from a little less than 300,000 to more than 500,000 inhabitants. But in Birmingham they were Stephen and Nazeria Kabase. Shukran! Encouraged by the Brazilian government, immigrants from Spain, Syria, and Lebanon migrated to Brazil between 1953 and 1960 to work in the new industrial sector. We wanted to know why. By the census of 1930 it seems that only 56,389 of the 147,171 Arab-Americans were born in the Eastern Mediterranean, with the remaining population being American-born. WebAs Mr. Forestier wrote the Darien Gap didnt existed, because its simply a gap on the Panamerican Road, whatever was the time that the first Paleoamericans arrived at Dr. Michael Shadid saved enough money to attend the University of Washington medical school, by peddling his way from New York to Texas selling jewelry. thank you. My great-grand father immigrated through Mexico, and into the US in 1917, but he was born in Mount Lebanon. (Najib Arbeely, one of the earliest immigrants to the US and a highly educated doctor, was the inspector at Ellis Island charged with conducting the tests on arriving immigrants). My name is Zachary Ellis Abraham, my Dad. Mt grandparents came from Baskinta.. My fathers family came from Baskinta, initially settled in Amsterdam/ Little Falls/ Fonda area of upstate NY and finally settled in Utica, NY where they as Maronite Catholics belonged to a thriving church community. John Gabriel left Syria in1906at age16 and came to New York and eventually settled in Wethersfield Ct.his father George Gabriel had come over earlier and had a farm in Ct and sold it to his son John and went back to Syria. Im not sure what youre looking for. Any information about this family name and my ancestors is appreciated. He told me that it was to identify him as a Christian. Fascinating article. Possibly underreported since some didnt speak or write English. I have attempted to research the issue, but have not been very successful. Some of the main causes of migration during this period include: Economic opportunities: Many people migrated in search of better economic opportunities, such as higher wages or access to land. They attended St Louis Gonzaga church. My father was second generation Argentinian. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Arab Americans diverged significantly from the dispersal pattern of most other immigrant communities. The Russian consul to Beirut, Constantin Dimitrievich Petkovich, summarized this advantageous state of affairs in an 1885 report: The current Lebanese administration has guaranteed for the Lebanese a greater measure of tranquility and social security, and it has guaranteed individual rightsWith this it has superseded that which the Ottoman administration provides for the populations of neighboring wilayat [Ottoman districts]. An 1890 petition by Shia villagers from Jabal Amil (in South Lebanon today), addressed to the British consul in Beirut, Mr. Eldridge, supports these contentions. From Marseilles, they departed for either northern ports or to South America. The NH farmhouse dated back to the 1700s. Escaping a bad marriage (as did Gibran Khalil Gibrans mother), reuniting with family, seeking adventure, pursuing learning and knowledge (as was the case with the Arbeely family), were all individual reasons to leave home. While we can certainly find incidents of violence and repression (neither of which was one-sided), the fact remains that the period between 1861 and 1914 was one of long peace, when, as the historian Engin Akarli argues, the inhabitants of Mount Lebanonfrom where came the great majority of immigrantsenjoyed many advantages that nearby districts did not have. For instance, many Lebanese moved from Lawrence, Mass. This dramatic demographic growth within two generations quickly outpaced the ability of the local economy to provide jobs and income. I do believe that Elias, was the brother of Tanius Basha from the Arizona Bashas. But I have found MANY relatives in Birminigham. While we tend to think of these pioneers are predominantly male, what becomes quickly clear from the recorded numbers is that women were ever present in this migratory movement. Perhaps they changed it? Really interesting to read this. Later built a general store, then a lumber mill, then lumber yards. My name is also Daniel. Makes more sense now. [3] Erik-Jan Zrcher, The Ottoman Conscription System In Theory And Practice, 1844-1918, International Review of Social History 43 (3) (1998), pp. At best we have imprecise, and quite often erroneous, answers to questions such as: how many immigrants were living in the United States between 1900 and 1930? The Early Lebanese in America: A Demographic Portrait, 1880-1930, Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora, Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies News. I remember the three Christian Lebanese Churches in Lawrence. [1] The first 19th century Arab to arrive in the US was Antonios Bishallany who came to the US in 1854. Muslims followed in large numbers beginning in the late 1960s. My grandparents are Kassoufs from Zahle. hello lisa this is habib el hayek from beirut lebanon i always visit baskinta and love it so much what is your family original name. Came to Cambridge, Ohio then to Detroit. Give me a call. He was married to Loretta Boukissen and after her death married Sitto Lily Zahab.I wish I would have asked him more questionw obout our heritage. In the past, some have attributed this human movement to persecution of Christians, who made up a large percentage of the emigrants and mostly came from the central district of Lebanon, called Mount Lebanon. I may have some more info. The sister had 3 kids. WebThe origins of the European settlers in Oklahoma reflected this new wave of immigrants. I have been trying to determine why my great grand father Khalil Abdallah Abou Haider brought his entire family from Lebanon to Lawrence MA in the 1890s. In resorting to this exaggerated narrative, they were feeding into Orientalist notions current at the time in America, which portrayed Islam and Turks (the term used for Muslims) as nefarious, violent, and repressive. I have been searching nearly 40 years and have found living relatives in CA, AL & PA. Arab immigration to the United States began before the United States achieved independence in 1776. I tried to track down a Zegibe in CA when I was in Reno, back in 2012. I have been trying to learn more about family history in Lebanon. his name was ROUKOZ YOUSSEF SAAIBY. He left his wife and children behind, but never returned. Your work is appreciated. Been trying to find out information on my roots in Lebanon and the family of my great-grandfather, his name is Najib Doumitt if you or anyone has info I would love to hear it! Jad, My fathers family also immigrated to the US from Mount Lebanon area and we always have been told it was due to religious persecution. Rather than the 120,000 figure usually given, we now know that in total around 60,000 Syrians (or half as many as had been assumed) immigrated to the US. http://www.stmaryaocc.org/aboutus/parishhistory.html We are trying to find the lineage of my Great Grandfather Roman Thomas. Hi Andrea, They appear to have left because of the continuous fighting in the region. The decision by Saudi Arabia to adopt an economic strategy independent of the United States could have significant implications for the U.S. and its relationship with the Middle East. I dont think my Grandpa has done a lot of digging and Im not even sure he realizes his Dad might have been lying. 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