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Migrations and « imported » models of urban citizenship and ways of life: Migrants as agents of urban development in Jerusalem and AmmanFalestin NailiThe seminar will take place at Ifpo (10:00 - 12:00)Abstract:Beyond the humanitarian issues related to migration, I would like to consider how migrants shape their host societies, in particular in urban contexts. Voluntary and forced migrations have shaped the Near East for centuries and cities such as Jerusalem and Amman cannot be thought without reference to migrant communities. Rather than a presentation of research results, this will be an exploration of research questions linked to the modern and contemporary history of Jerusalem and Amman.BiographyFalestin Naili is a social historian and anthropologist associated with the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Amman, Jordan and with the Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA) in Lyons/ Grenoble, France. She is a member of the core team of the ERC Project « Opening Jerusalem’s Archives : for a Connected History of Citadinité in the Holy City (1840-1940) ».Her main area of research concerns the Late Ottoman history of the Bilad Al Sham and the collective memory of this period. In her publications, she has dealt with millenarist settlement and missionary projects in Palestine, early ethnographies of Palestine, forced migration in the contemporary Middle East, and collective memory and heritage issues in these contexts. She is a graduate of the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I).