Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia : : Women, Migration, and the Diaspora / / ed. by Haci Akman.

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 va...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (206 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. Reasserting the Centrality of Women in Diasporas
  • PART I. BARGAINING AND NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES
  • Chapter 1. Art as Political Expression in Diaspora
  • Chapter 2. Islamic Identity as Third Space
  • Chapter 3. Political Muslim Women in the News Media
  • Chapter 4. Finding Their Own Way between Revolutionary Adult Feminism and Well-behaved Veiled Girlhood
  • Chapter 5. Gendered Experiences of Homeland, Identity and Belonging among the Kurdish Diaspora
  • PART II. HOME POLITICS, HOST POLICIES AND RESISTANCE
  • Chapter 6. Learning Processes and Political Literacy among Women in the Norwegian Kurdish Diaspora
  • Chapter 7. Territorial Stigmatization, Inequality of Schooling and Identity Formation among Young Immigrants
  • Chapter 8. The Absence of Strategy and the Absence of Bildung
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index