ABSTRACT
The reconfiguration of the community spaces of Syrian Jews and Christians shows a number of cultural elements from the regions of emigration and Mexico. The similarities and differences shown in the incorporation process to the new enviornment are analysed comparatively. Questions concerning the Mexican struggle for a national identity, the possibilities of inclusion-exclusion allowed by these schemes, the modalities of economic insertion as pedlars, the community institutions that assured social reproduction–temples, schools, religious services and so on – and the degrees of assimilation of both groups to the host society, are discussed in this contribution.
