Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia (eBook)

Women, Migration, and the Diaspora

Haci Akman (Herausgeber)

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2014
206 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-307-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;making of the Scandinavian"e; and the novel ways in which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation state.

Autor

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).

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2014
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Anthropology (General), Gender Studies and Sexuality, Refugee and Migration Studies • General Anthropology, Refugee &amp • General Anthropology, Refugee & Migration Studies • Migration Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-78238-307-7 / 1782383077
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-307-9 / 9781782383079