This research explores the journeys of migration and desire of Egyptian migrant workers, men and women, who were professionals in Egypt during the 1990s and migrated to occupy low-wage/low-status employment positions in New York City’s service sector. It focuses on their migration stories and histories, their experiences of contradictory class mobility, their production of households and families, as well as their racialization in the post-9/11 era. Cairo Papers in Social Science 30/3.
The New York Egyptians: Voyages and Dreams
Cairo Papers Vol. 30, No. 3
This research explores the journeys of migration and desire of Egyptian migrant workers, men and women, who were professionals in Egypt during the 199
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Yasmine M. Ahmed is a PhD candidate in human geography at l’Université de Paris X Ouest Nanterre la Défense. She works as a research assistant at the Social Research Center of AUC.
