Marriage, gender and refugee migration: spousal relationships among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom

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...

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Main Author: Carver, Natasha (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick ; Camden ; Newark ; New Jersey ; London Rutgers University Press [2021]
Series:The politics of marriage and gender: global issues in local contexts
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Summary: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
"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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xii, 269 Seiten 23 cm (pbk.)
ISBN:9781978805538
9781978805545

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