Islam, gender and migrant integration the case of Somali immigrant families - Al Huraibi, Nahla 1966- (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2014)
Paralleltitel: Social context of residential integration
Gender, immigration and the Somali community of Columbus, Ohio -- Islam, gender and ijtihad -- Researching immigrant integration -- Gender identity and gender roles in Somali immigrant families -- Gender relationships and Somali immigrant integration -- Ijtihad, gender and transnational integration
Includes bibliographical references and index
Al Huraibi addresses three questions: how do Somali immigrants negotiate gender notions and practices between those maintained in Somali culture and those adopted from mainstream American culture; how immigrants' understandings of Islamic writings on gender shape the negotiation process and how the integration process shapes their understanding of Islamic gender discourse; and to what extent resultant gender perceptions and practices reflect the transnational integration and cultural hybridism of two or more cultures. Al Huraibi concludes that respondents' cross-cultural selection of aspects f