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Gender in Transnationalism: Home, Longing and Belonging Among Moroccan Migrant Women book cover

1st Edition

Gender in Transnationalism Home, Longing and Belonging Among Moroccan Migrant Women

By Ruba Salih Copyright 2003
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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A fascinating ethnographic journey into migrant women's lives across two countries, Gender in Transnationalism highlights women's construction of 'home' between Morocco and Italy as a significant site whereby broader feelings and narratives of displacement and belonging can be grasped. Salih investigates what Moroccan women's relations with their adopted country are and how their identities,... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Ambivalent Frontiers: Moroccan Women, Transnational Migration and Nation-States  3. Constructing Self and Home between Italy and Morocco  4. The Transnational Division of Ritual Space: Reformulating 'Tradition' and 'Modernity'  5. Migration, Islam and Modernities  6. Narrating the Self, Narrating the Other: Shifting Boundaries of Culture and Identity  7. (De)constructing Citizenship: Cultural Difference and Migrants' Rights in Italy  8. Conclusions

Biography

Ruba Salih is a social anthropologist and is currently a research fellow at the University of Bologna. She has published extensively on transnational migration, gender and Islam.

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