Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

3/1/1980 - 8/31/1982

Funding Totals

$101,550.00 (approved)
$101,550.00 (awarded)


Immigrant Values and Value Assimilation: Conflict and Ac- commodation, The Case of the Syrians in America, 1920-1940

FAIN: RS-*1053-80

National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs (Washington, DC 20005-5502)
Alixa Naff (Project Director: February 1980 to October 1990)

To support a study of the relationship between immigrant values and value assi-milation, conflict and accomodation among Christian and Moslem Syrian-Americansin three Midwestern communities: Detroit, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Spring Valley, Illinois, between 1920-1940.