Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia

Women, Migration, and the Diaspora

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2014
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-306-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Haci Akman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities, at the University of Bergen, Norway. His research focuses on ethnicity, migration and diaspora, cultural heritage, and identity. His recent publications include Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity (co-edited, Berghahn Books, 2008).

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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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.6.2014
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-78238-306-9 / 1782383069
ISBN-13	978-1-78238-306-2 / 9781782383062
Zustand	Neuware