LERC Research Paper Series (LERC-RPS)

The Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC) of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Notre Dame University-Louaizé, Lebanon hosts LERC research paper series (LERC-RPS) for academics and other researchers. The series is concerned with publishing research on migration from, to and through Lebanon from a comparative international perspective including, by not limited to, studies on emigration, immigration, refugees, labor relations, trafficking, clandestine and seasonal migration, “entertainment migration”, circular migration, lifestyle migration, and return migration, as well as migration and citizenship, migration and networks, migration and cultural material, migration food and cultural exchanges, migration and development, entrepreneurship, remittances, and the like. [LERC-RPS ISSN # 2221-3333].  For more information contact lerc@ndu.edu.lb.

Lily Glaser, Letters to Uncle Sam: Ameen Rihani and The American Mahjar, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College of Columbia University, supervised by Prof. Nathanael Shelley and Prof. Professor Nora Lessersohn, with the support of Prof. Akram Khater, Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, and Prof. Eugene Sensenig, Lebanese Emigration Research Center, (2025), [Link] 

Lily Glaser, 'Vivas on the side for Syria Libre' Ameen Rihani's Political Activities as told by Letters to Uncle Sam (1917-1919), Lebanese Emigration Research Center research paper series, supervised by Prof. Eugene Richard Sensenig, Director, (2025), [Link] 

Elsa El-Hachem Kirby, LEBANESE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AN AGENCY FOR INTEGRATION AND UPWARD SOCIAL MOBILITY IN SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL, Research Paper Series/LERC, Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon, 2015, [ISSN 2221-3333] [Link] 

Guita Hourani, Diaspora and e-Commerce - The Globalization of  Lebanese, Research Paper Series/LERC, Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon, 2009, [ISSN 2221-3333]. [Link]

Anne Monsour, New Century, Old Story! Race, Religion, Bureaucrats, and the Australian Lebanese Story, Research Paper Series/LERC, Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon, 2009, [ISSN 2221-3333]. [Link]

Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos, The Transnational Imagination-20th Century Networks and Institutions of the Mashreqi Migration to Mexico, Research Paper Series/LERC, Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon, 2009, [ISSN 2221-3333]. [Link]

Nelia Hyndman-Rizik, Balad Niswen-Hukum Niswen-The Perception of Gender Inversions between Lebanon and Australia, Research Paper Series/LERC, Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon, 2009, [ISSN 2221-3333]. Link]

Rita Stephan, Lebanese-Americans' Identity, Citizenship and political behavior, Research Paper Series/LERC, Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon, 2009, [ISSN 2221-3333]. [Link]

Sawsan Abdukrahim, Pathways to Social Mobility-Lebanese Immigrants in Detroit and Small Business Enterprise, Research Paper Series/LERC, Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon, 2009, [ISSN 2221-3333]. [Link]

Guita Hourani, The Kurds of Lebanon: Socioeconomic Mobility and Political Participation Via Naturalization, Research Paper Series/LERC No. 1/2011, Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon, 2011, [ISBN 978-9953-0-2096-9; ISSN 2221-3333]. [Link]

Sam van Vliet and Guita Hourani, “Refugees of the Arab Spring”: The Syrian Refugees in Lebanon, Research Paper Series No. 1/2012, Carthage Center for Research and Information (CCRI) of the Lebanese Development Network (LDN) and the Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC) of Notre Dame University (NDU), published by the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) of the American University of Cairo (AUC), 2012, [ISSN 2221-3333]. [Link]

Suzanne Menhem, "LES NOUVEAUX MIGRANTS ET LE MARCHÉ DE L’EMPLOI AU LIBAN", Research Paper Series/LERC, Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon, 2016, [ISSN 2221-3333]. [link].