1945

From ottoman modernity to French Beirut

The French mandate over Lebanon and Syria linked those former Ottoman Arab provinces to other territories under French tutelage, including North African colonies and protectorates in present day Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. As political boundaries were redefined, new circulations joined earlier migratory circuits and corridors, engendering debates, policy and surveillance over populations in movement. In the global context of women’s movements and women’s growing access to the public, the migration of women in particular became suspect, especially that which lacked the moral and economic supervision of women’s activity by a spouse, a government or another institution. Often identified as “foreign” women by local populations, they increasingly found work in service positions in the Eastern Mediterranean. Yet women workers were suspect. They were tolerated but resented by both the French authorities and former Ottoman officials incorporated into mandate administration, who could all agree on casting women’s presence in public as a moral threat.

Related Subject(s): Migration ; Women and Gender Issues
Countries: Oman
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