Negotiating identities in Scandinavia : women, migration, and the diaspora / edited by Haci Akman.

Other author Akman, Haci, editor.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Descriptionix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Women immigrants--Scandinavia. --Social conditions.
Women immigrants--Political activity. --Scandinavia.
Women--Scandinavia. --Identity.
Scandinavia--Emigration and immigration.

Contents Introduction: reasserting the centrality of women in diasporas / Haci Akman -- Art as political expression in diaspora / Haci Akman -- Islamic identity as third space: Muslim women activists negotiating subjectivity in Sweden / Pia Karlsson Minganti -- Political Muslim women in the news media / Rikke Andreassen -- Finding their own way between revolutionary adult feminism and well-behaved veiled girlhood: female migrants in Denmark / Malene Fenger-Grøndahl -- Gendered experiences of homeland, identity, and belonging among the Kurdish diaspora / Minoo Alinia -- Learning processes and political literacy among women in the Norwegian Kurdish diaspora / Kariane Westrheim -- Territorial stigmatization, inequality of schooling, and identity formation among young immigrants / Bolette Moldenhawer -- The absence of strategy and the absence of Bildung: when integration policy cannot succeed / Tina Kallenhave.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013029906
ISBN9781782383062 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN1782383069 (hardback : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40023930190

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks JV8198 .N44 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold