Description
Book Synopsis Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and political life, public debate, and art. This volume focuses on immigration and the concept of diaspora through the experiences of women living in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Through a variety of case studies, the authors approach the multifaceted nature of interactions between these women and their adopted countries, considering both the local and the global. The text examines the “making of the Scandinavian” and the novel ways in which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation state.
Trade Review “This book is recommended for all those interested in identity, gender and diaspora, and migration studies more broadly. The topics covered by the authors also recommend it for those interested in belonging, the state, political engagement and resistance.” • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
“It is the empirical cases analysed in each chapter that present insightful readings of the conditions and circumstances that women migrants meet in a Scandinavian context.” • Nordic Journal of Migration Research
“The anthology provides careful analysis based on rich empirical material that illuminates the complexity of the region (and of the migration processes that have occurred in the last thirty years) represented and acted upon as the Nordic…[Its] strength lies in its ability to pose central research questions at the crossroad between the making of the ‘Nordic’ and the original ways through which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation-state. This ability to move between the local and the global through original and reflexive methodologies locates the anthology’s work within a broader international scholarship.” • Diana Mulinari, Center for Gender Studies, University of Lund
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reasserting the Centrality of Women in Diasporas
Haci Akman
PART I: BARGAINING AND NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES
Chapter 1. Art as Political Expression in the Diaspora
Haci Akman
Chapter 2. Islamic Identity in Third Space: Muslim Women Negotiating Subjectivity in Sweden
Pia Karlsson Minganti
Chapter 3. Political Muslim Women in the News Media
Rikke Andreassen
Chapter 4. Finding Their Own Way Between Revolutionary Adult Feminism and Well-behaved Veiled Girlhood – Female Migrants in Denmark
Malene Fenger-Grøndahl
Chapter 5. Being a Kurdish Woman in Sweden: Diaspora, Gender and Politics of Belonging
Minoo Alinia
PART II: HOME POLITICS, HOST POLICIES AND RESISTANCE
Chapter 6. Kurdish Women of the Diaspora and Political Participation
Kariane Westrheim
Chapter 7. Territorial Stigmatisation, Inequality of Schooling and Identity Formation Among Young Immigrants
Bolette Moldenhawer
Chapter 8. The Absence of Strategy and the Absence of Bildung – When Integration Policy Cannot Succeed
Tina Kallehave
Notes on Contributors
Index
