Migration and Multiculturalism in the Mediterranean

JSIS A 349
  • Quarters: Spring
  • General Education Requirements: SSc
  • Instructors: Nektaria Klapaki

Examines multiculturalism and migration in the Mediterranean. Focuses on immigrant communities of Greek diaspora in multicultural cities of Smyrna in nineteenth century Ottoman Empire, and of Alexandria in twentieth century Egypt. Considers how immigration to contemporary Greece transformed an ethnically homogeneous, mono-cultural Greek society into an increasingly multicultural one.