In the Shadow of the Colonizer: Studying Up in the Postcolonial Middle East

The article discusses challenges related to studying mobile elites in a postcolonial country, Egypt. It draws on the author’s ethnographic fieldwork with privileged members of Egyptian society during a politically turbulent period between 2011 and 2014. It illustrates how both the positionality of t...

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Main Author: Liina Mustonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Helsinki University Press 2024-12-01
Series:Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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Online Access:https://account.journal-njmr.org/index.php/uh-j-njmr/article/view/777
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