Report

The Mardinite Community in Lebanon: Migration of Mardin's People

In Lebanon where eighteen different sects live, the rhetoric of the social and Political structure is constructed through sectarian differences. Relying on a sectarian quota system, the country lives through difficult problems in many central topics such as minorities, political representation and social rights. This research focuses on the minority community in a historical perspective who migrated from Mardin to Lebanon in various times for various reasons and aims to put forth their problems learned through interviews and field observations. This report seeks to show that the Mardinites in Lebanon who does not a form a homogeneous community, have different referents for their identity perceptions, therefore ignoring these basic differences are effective in their political problems.