Hadhramaut and its Diaspora

ISBN: 9781784538682 出版年：2017 页码：274 Noel Brehony Bloomsbury Publishing

The Hadhramis of Yemen have migrated for centuries in large numbers, establishing a diaspora that extends around the Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States. This migration has deeply affected the host countries as well as Hadhramaut itself. Yet the region has not beits population size, capabilities or resources to wield significant political influence in successive Yemeni regimes. This book examines the people of the Hadhrami diaspora, who travelled as religious scholars, traders, labourers and soldiers, to understand their enduring influence and identity. In doing so, the book explores key aspects of their history, including the impact of Yemeni nationalist movements, the significance of land reforms, the importance of social and tribal origins and how the Hadhrami resisted European dominaticommunity. Although a distinctive part of geographical Yemen, Hadhramaut was not regardpolitical entity until the twentieth century.This researrecent turmoil in Yemen following the Arab Spring, the growth of Al-Qa'ida and ISIS, and war involving a coalition led by Saudi Arabia, will produce even greater instability in the region or perhaps leYemen, a restored South Yemen or even to Hadhramaut as an independent state.