Une migration instrumentalisée : politiques étatiques et pratiques institutionnelles lors du départ des Grecs d’Égypte (1945-1961)

Abstract

The Greeks of Egypt were the largest foreign community in Egypt along the 19th and the middle of the 20th century. Historiography has long attributed their departure to the Suez crisis and the nationalization measures taken by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the early 1960s. This article shows that this emigration was not only the result of individual initiatives or the Egyptian nationalist policy but was also part of wider projects of international organizations and institutions of the Greek community and the Greek State alike, which promoted it for their own political or other interests.

Keywords

• diaspora
• migration
• Greek community
• nationalism
• international organizations
• Egypt