Le musée Ararat-Eskijian & NAASR présentent : “la politique de la migration arménienne en Amérique du Nord” dimanche 8 mars 2020 à 4:pm

THE ARARAT-ESKIJIAN MUSEUM
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH
Present
THE POLITICS OF ARMENIAN MIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA, 1885-1915
A Lecture by Dr. David E. Gutman
Associate Professor of History, Manhattanville College
Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 4:00 p.m.
Ararat-Eskijian Museum, Sheen Chapel
15105 Mission Hills Road
Mission Hills, CA 91345
Free and open to the public. Reception and refreshments immediately following the program and question-and-answer session.
For more information call the Ararat-Eskijian Museum at 747-500-7584
or e-mail Eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com
Between 1885 and 1915, roughly eighty thousand Armenians migrated between the Ottoman Empire and North America. For much of this period, Ottoman state authorities viewed Armeni-an migrants, particularly those who returned to the empire after sojourns abroad, as a political threat to the empire’s security. In response, Istanbul worked vigorously to prevent Armenians both from migrating to and returning from North America. In response dense smuggling networks emerged to assist migrants in bypassing this migration ban. The dynamics that shaped the evolution of these networks resemble those that drive the phenomenon of migrant smuggling in the present day. Furthermore, as this talk will discuss, migrants who returned home found themselves stuck in an uneasy legal limbo as both Ottoman and United States governments disavowed them as citizens, leaving them vulnerable to deportation from their own ancestral lands. As this talk contends, the Armenian migratory experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries both parallels and sheds light on themes such as smuggling, deportation, and the criminalization of migration, that are central to the issue of global migration in the 21st century.
David Gutman is Associate Professor of History at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915 is his first book. He has also published several articles and reviews on migration, mobility control, and the historiography of the Armenian genocide.