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Eliane N. Fersan is Director of the Youth and Culture Center (YCC) in Lebanon (http://ycczouk.wordpress.com). She holds a Master 2 in History from Université Saint Esprit de Kaslik (USEK) and was previously Associate Researcher at the Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC) at Notre Dame University–Louaize in Lebanon. She conducted extensive research and indexing on the E-Levant series of the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France as well as the Maronite Patriarchal Archives of Bkerke. She has also conducted research on early Lebanese migration and the naturalization process under French Mandate. She is currently active in the field of sustainable development, democracy, and human rights.
The first volume of the migration and the Arab World series dealt primarily with the trends in, consequences of, and policy responses to labor migration in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states since the “oil boom” period of the 1970s. This volume focuses on the countries of the Mashreq (i.e., Egypt and the Levant) as source and destination countries for various migrant groups, dating from the late 19th century up to the present day.
