Islam, gender and migrant integration : the case of Somali immigrant families

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Label

Islam, gender and migrant integration : the case of Somali immigrant families

Title remainder

the case of Somali immigrant families

Statement of responsibility

Nahla al Huraibi

Title variation

Social context of residential integration

Creator

• Al Huraibi, Nahla, 1966-

Author

• Al Huraibi, Nahla, 1966-

Subject

• Americanization
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
• Immigrant families
• Immigrant families -- United States
• Muslim families
• Muslim families -- United States
• Muslim women
• Muslim women -- United States
• Muslims -- Cultural assimilation
• Muslims -- Cultural assimilation -- United States
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
• Sex role
• Sex role
• Somalis -- Cultural assimilation -- United States
• United States
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | Social aspects
• Women, Somali
• Women, Somali -- United States
• Americanization

Language

eng

Summary

Al Huraibi addresses three questions: how do Somali immigrants negotiate gender notions and practices between those maintained in Somali culture and those adopted from mainstream American culture; how immigrants'understandings of Islamic writings on gender shape the negotiation process and how the integration process shapes their understanding of Islamic gender discourse; and to what extent resultant gender perceptions and practices reflect the transnational integration and cultural hybridism of two or more cultures. Al Huraibi concludes that respondents'cross-cultural selection of aspects from both cultures indicates a transnational pattern of integration in a globalized world. She argues, contrary to common perceptions, that Islam enables Muslim immigrants to distance themselves from certain aspects of the culture left behind and to embrace aspects from the host culture. All in order to be better Muslims

Member of

• New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

AZU

Dewey number

305.9/06912

Index

index present

LC call number

E184.S67

LC item number

A42 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The New Americans: recent immigration and American society