| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Politics of marriage and gender: global issues in local contexts |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Context and Narrative: Speaking With and Speaking About -- Atrocity Stories about Divorce -- Personal Accounts of Relationship Breakdown -- Being Responsible: Providing for the Family -- Doing Responsibility: Caring for the Family -- Somalinimo: An Existential Crisis? -- Regendering Somaliness in the British Context -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by Somali refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, being a refugee is described as making "everything" feel "different, mixed up, upside down." Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration details how Somali gendered identities are contested, negotiated, and (re)produced within a framework of religious and politico-national discourses, finding that the most significant catalysts for challenging and changing harmful gender practices are a combination of the welfare system and Islamic praxis. Described as "an important and urgent monograph," this book will be a key text relevant to scholars of migration, transnational families, personal life, and gender. Written in a beautiful and accessible style, the book voices the participants with respect and compassion, and is also recommended for scholars of qualitative social research methods"-- Provided by publisher |
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Somalis -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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Muslims -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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Marriage -- Great Britain
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Sex role -- Great Britain
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Muslim families -- Great Britain
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Immigrant families -- Great Britain
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Somalis -- Cultural assimilation -- Great Britain
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Immigrant families
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Marriage
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Muslim families
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Muslims -- Social conditions
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Sex role
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781978805552 |
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1978805551 |
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