Chaldeans in Michigan

by Mary C. Sengstock

The Michigan Chaldean community consists of more than 100,000 people of Iraqi descent who live in the Metropolitan Detroit area. The earliest Chaldeans arrived in the Detroit area about 1910. Living in the northern suburbs--Southfield, Oak Park, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Farmington, Farmington Hills--most members of Detroit's Chaldean community trace their ancestry to a single town, Telkaif, in northern Iraq. Unlike most Iraqis, Chaldeans are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870137425
• ISBN13: 9780870137426
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"