Immigrants and AssociationsLloyd A. Fallers Compilation of essays on problems of social integration of minority groups - refers in particular to cultural factors in the integration of Chinese immigrants in Singapore and in the integration of Lebanese in West Africa, and covers historical and sociological aspects of immigration, intergroup relations, problems of tradition and religion, social status, living conditions, etc. |
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Accra activities administration Arab Babas British Buddhist Calabar Cantonese century ceremony China Chinese in Singapore Chinese Secret Societies Chinese society church clans colonial cultural Dakar Desbordes dialect group economic Efik emigrants Epko Society etubom European fact family union former French Freedman French West Africa Fukien functions Ghana Ghee Ghee Hin Hakka halls Hokkien homeland Hushaymah Ibid Ibo in Calabar important individual interests Kano kinship kongsi large number leaders Leba Lebanese Lebanese community Lebanese government Lebanese immigrants Lebanese in West Lebanon lineage live London Madagascar major Malaya Maronite membership ment Muruwah nese Nigeria Obong occupation official organisation origin Overseas Chinese political recruited region religious rites ritual Safa sects settlement Sierra Leone Singapore Chinese slaves social solidarity soul-tablets structure surname associations Syrians territorial tion Tiuchiu town trade Triad tribal tribe ufok village voluntary associations women worship