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