An Archive of Difference: Syrian Women, the Peddling Economy and US Social Welfare, 1880-1935.

Historians have scrutinised the racial classifications of Arab immigrants in the census, in immigration documents and in early-twentieth-century naturalisation cases. However, recent scholarship has shown that other archives - ones that do not focus on interactions with the law - reveal a different...

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Published in:	Gender & History Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 127 - 150
Main Author:	Karem Albrecht, Charlotte
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Apr2016
Subjects:	Syrian refugees Peddling Women immigrants Social services Gender differences (Sociology) Peddlers Social work with women United States economy History Social history Economics Social conditions of refugees United States
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