Arabs in Exile: Yemeni Migrants in Urban Britain"Arab migration is not just a feature of recent instabilities in the Middle East. The Lebanese and Syrians have a long established history of migration to Africa, North and South America as well as Europe, while North African Arabs have long established links to France. The Yemeni community in Britain is one of the most established and yet least known of all migrant groupings. Yemenis began settling in British ports at the beginning of the 20th century, and after World War II they became part of the immigrant labour force in Britain's industrial cities. Numbering around 15,000 the Yemenis were the first community from an Islamic country to settle in Britain. More than any other migrant group they have maintained close social and political links with their homelands. |
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Yemeni Migration and its Contexts | 1 |
The Yemeni background | 7 |
The disaster of the twentieth century | 14 |
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