1st Edition

Somali, Muslim, British Striving in Securitized Britain

By Giulia Liberatore Copyright 2017
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Somalis are one of the most chastised Muslim communities in Europe. Depicted in the news as victims of female genital mutilation, perpetrators of gang violence, or more recently, as radical Islamists, Somalis have been cast as a threat to social cohesion, national identity, and security in Britain and beyond. Somali, Muslim, British shifts attention away from these public representations to... Read more
List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNote on Language1. Introduction2. An Ethnography with Somali Women in London3. Memories of Modern Mogadishu4. Tuition Centres and Somali Mosques: Raising Good Daughters in London5. Updating Soomaalinimo: Young Somalis and the Problematization of Culture6. Mosque Hopping: Seeking Islamic Knowledge in London7. Multiculturalism, British Values, and the Muslim Subject8. Imagining an Ideal Husband9. Beyond PreventReferencesIndex

Biography

Giulia Liberatore is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Sociology, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and the Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK.