Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration - Spousal Relationships Among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom

This ethical and poetical ethnography analyzes the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, Somali migrants find "everything" to be "different, mixed up, upside down." The book finds that the most significant catalysts for challenging harmful gender practices are a combination of the welfare system and Islamic praxis.

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Series Foreword by Péter Berta

1: Introduction               

2: Context and Narrative: Speaking With and Speaking About

3: Atrocity Stories about Divorce

4: Personal Accounts of Relationship Breakdown                      

5: Being Responsible: Providing for the Family

6: Doing Responsibility: Caring for the Family                        

7: Somalinimo: An Existential Crisis?   

8: Regendering Somaliness in the British Context       

9: Conclusion     

Acknowledgments    

Notes

Bibliography  

Index

 

About the author

NATASHA CARVER is a lecturer in international criminology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.

Product details

• Authors: Natasha Carver
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781978805538
• ISBN: 978-1-978805-53-8
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Politics of Marriage and Gende; Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories