Migration, Demographic Changes, and Politics in Lebanon

Abstract

Migration and its political and social impacts have always been subjects to numerous ongoing research. In migration studies, there are host countries and sending countries, and researchers found these countries as rich fields to investigate and study. A country like Lebanon is considered a country of both immigration and emigration. This makes it an even richer case to study. This research focuses on Lebanon, and its aim is to discuss how migration affected its demography. Demography in Lebanon primarily means the numerical size of each sect, and the political formation in Lebanon has sectarian basis. Hence, the aim of this research is study how migration affected the Lebanese demography, and how this in turn might affect the political formation of each sect. In this qualitative research, Pierre Bourdieu’s social capital theory is used for the analysis.