Introduction: Children and Youth on the Move in Middle East and North African History

Authors

  • Ella Fratantuono University of North Carolina at Charlotte Author
  • Lucia Carminati University of Oslo Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24847/v11i22024.601

Keywords:

Children, Youth, Childhood, Foreword

Author Biographies

  • Ella Fratantuono, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

    Ella Fratantuono is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research and teaching focus on the Ottoman Empire, the Modern Middle East, state-building, migration, and genocide. Her recently published book, Governing Migration in the Late Ottoman Empire (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), traces the emergence and development of a modern Ottoman migration regime during the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century global era of mass migration. Her work has appeared in venues including the Journal of Genocide Research, Border Criminologies, and History Compass.

  • Lucia Carminati, University of Oslo

    Lucia Carminati is Professor of History at the University of Oslo. She researches the history of migration and mobility in the modern Middle East with a focus on Egypt. Besides her first monograph, Seeking Bread and Fortune, Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906 (University of California Press, 2023), she has published work in venues including the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of the History of Sexuality, and Comparative Studies in Society and History. In 2023, she finalized a digitization project of a Cairo-based newspapers collection with a grant of the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme.

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Published

2024-06-11