THE MIDDLE EAST HAS PRODUC more than its share of stories of refugee displaced individuals evacuees.

THE MIDDLE EAST HAS PRODUC more than its share of stories of refugee displaced individuals evacuees, and other victims of politics and exhibition Of course the deplorable plight of the Palestinian refugee in countries neighboring Palestine is according to far the most striking example. further there are others. As a contribution to this history of flight and resettlement in the Arab world, this article analyzes the story of the Egyptian "migrants" from the Suez Canal baldric who fled between 1967 and 1976 as a originate of the Six-Day War in June 1967 This analysis of the "forced migration" experience in Egypt is a contribution to a broader understanding of the contemporary processe of answer to war and disaster in the Arab world.

The case of the displaced and the evacuees from the Suez Canal cities illustrates the social processe of the creation and absorption of refugee As in many other cases of forced migration, people's flight was caused from unexpected warfare, but this Egyptian case has an unique features. In particular, the story displays the three phases of flight, adaptation, and turn back (or integration into the entertainer setting), and it illustrates the situation where the migrants and the armys share the same basic improvement and where the hosts played a supportive part in the beginning.

The Suez Canal became the temporary Egyptian frontier when Israel occupied the Sinai Peninsula in 1967 Many Egyptians departed the Canal cities and villages to avoid the combat belt in 1967, and with the heating up of the "War of Attrition" (beginning March 1969 between the sides of summer 1970) the remaining civilian population left or was evacuated (Waterbury 1973) Altogether nearly united million people were displaced from the three Suez Canal cities of Port Said, Ismailiya, and Suez and their vicinities. Janet Abu-Lughod (1985:180-181) leaves to this as a 'war-induced migration of urban people' The peak of migration from the Suez Canal area to the repose of Egypt was in 1967-1969 and with the Egyptian regaining of the Sinai through treaty after the 1973 war, a answer movement began in 1974 and continued until about 1976 Abu-Lughod relates that the answer was as unforeseen as the flight. Thus at the time of the manner of moving of the internally displaced in the late 1960 no the same could anticipate that the possibility of answer would occur so soon: as usual with refugee the community did not know what to expect

The original flight was a follow of a war with an external enemy, rather than as a flow of an internal conflict, and the civilian population was pushed into the Egyptian heartland as the Israelis appeared forward the east bank of the Suez Canal. the public were fleeing warfare and not occupation and expulsion. The displaced and their landlords were politically on the same side, confronting a foreign enemy. Those who left their domestic circles and jobs remained within Egypt and within a decade were able to revert to their starting point, although this issue was not known at the beginning. The landlord population provided substantial assistance, especially in the beginning. The Egyptian administrative regularity remained intact, and played a key-note role. Those with government piece of works retained them or were transferred to similar seats The reception and integration of the displaced was handled entirely within the Egyptian rule with no foreign aid. Egyptian authorities tried luckily to avoid the word 'refugee' to escape the parallel to the Palestinian case, and instead spoke of 'migrants' to shroud both the displaced and the evacuees. Finally, common can note that this episode has not become part of a national mythology on a level though those affected by it remember their histories quite clearly.

There are certain features of the Egyptian handling of the case that can be seen in a wider words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following The official policy was to distribute the displaced as widely as possible rather than to use camps. The same practice occurr with regard to the treatment of the Palestinian refugee from the late 1940 (Dajani 1986; El Abed 2003) and the sub-Saharan African refugee today (Cooper 1992) Refugee camps did not emanate One consequence of this is that greatest in number refugees (or displaced persons) conclusion up in the major cities which can best absorb a stream of individuals. Of course, this scattering also corresponded to the paths that fleeing individuals took, since many of them sought revealed their relatives and friends elsewhere in Egypt

Since the Suez Canal migrations were circumscribed in time, our analysis can cloak the full sequence of impulsive powers in the experience of displacement. In the chain of circumstances we can see the different stages, from the initial flight to the eventual respond including the absorption of the displaced into a recently made known setting, involving housing, schooling, work, and eventually marriage and the continuation of the normal family period and then a second version of the same processe as the community returned home. The uncertainty and the mind of loss of the displaced is part of this broader picture.