MECACS Director guest edits special issue of Mashriq and Mahjar

Dr Fiona McCallum Guiney is guest editor of the current special issue of Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies. The issue is entitled ‘Middle East Christians in Europe’ and explores themes relating to identity and citizenship in the UK, Denmark and Austria. The issue is the outcome of workshops organised by the Defining and Identifying Middle Eastern Christians in Europeproject team which was led by Dr McCallum Guiney and funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area. Dr McCallum Guiney’s editorial introduces the case study of Middle Eastern Christians and locates the analysis within literature on identity and migration. The first article is co-authored by Dr McCallum Guiney with Dr Alistair Hunter (formerly of the University of St Andrews and now at the University of Glasgow) and explores how migrants experience the process of becoming (and being) citizens by taking the understudied case of Middle Eastern Christians of Iraqi and Egyptian heritage residing in the United Kingdom. The remaining articles in the special issue will be published over the next few months. 

• Heidi Armbruster, ‘Trajectories of Mobility: Intergenerational Narratives of Relocation and Achievement Among Viennese Syriac Christian Men’
• Andreas Schmoller, ‘Structures of Belonging and Relations: The Syriac Orthodox and the Coptic Orthodox Church in Austria’
• Sara Lei Sparre and Lise Paulsen Galal, ‘Domestication of Difference: Practices of Civic Engagement Among Middle Eastern Christians in Denmark’