Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland

An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement and Placemaking

Amanda J. Lubit (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-943-8 (ISBN)

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The lives of migrant Muslim women in divided, post-conflict Northern Ireland, both before and after the pandemic, are full of diverse stories and experiences of belonging. This book explores how women strive to belong and create a home despite pervasive hatred, sexism and racism. Under these circumstances, women employ various strategies to connect with people and places around them. Using personal stories, this book considers the relationships migrant Muslim women develop, the places they spend time and the activities they engage with. These stories are used to demonstrate the interconnectedness of gender, visibility, movement and placemaking as analytical concepts.

Amanda J. Lubit is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Post-Doctoral Fellow at Dublin City University. She is also engaged at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. In 2022 she was awarded the Human Rights Defender Award by the Society for Applied Anthropology.

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Who Are the Muslim women of Northern Ireland?

Chapter 1. The Northern Ireland Context: Impacts upon Migration and Gender

Chapter 2. Northern Ireland’s Migrant Muslim Population

Chapter 3. The Role of Islamic Clothing in Visibility

Chapter 4. The Intentional Invisibility of Islamic Women’s Spaces

Chapter 5. The Institutional Nature of Sectarianism: Shaping Sexism, Racism and Islamophobia

Chapter 6. ‘Maybe I Make Mistake Coming to Northern Ireland’: Navigating Housing Competition and Neighbourhood Aggression

Chapter 7. ‘Don’t Fit in Anywhere’: Social Exclusion and Barriers to Belonging

Chapter 8. A Harnessing the Creative Power of Care to Achieve Belonging and Emplacement

Chapter 9. Women-Only Spaces within the Islamic Centre

Chapter 10. Sadiqa: A Women-Only Space for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees

Chapter 11. Spatial, Temporal, Material and Social Realities of Seeking Asylum

Chapter 12. Creating Sadiqa Women’s Space: Transforming Place as a Tactic for Managing Life in Asylum

Chapter 13. A Time of Confinement: Reconfiguring Life in Online Spaces during COVID-19

Chapter 14. Connection in the Face of Northern Ireland’s Digital Divide

Conclusion: Exploring the Connections between Visibility, Movement, Placemaking and Empowerment

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2025
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80539-943-8 / 1805399438
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-943-8 / 9781805399438
Zustand	Neuware