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

Islam, gender and migrant integration : the case of Somali immigrant families / Nahla al Huraibi.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Al Huraibi, Nahla, 1966- (Author)
Other title:Social context of residential integration.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, [2014]
Series:New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Subjects:
Somalis > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Muslims > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Americanization.
Immigrant families > United States.
Muslim families > United States.
Women, Somali > United States.
Muslim women > United States.
Sex role.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Immigrant families.
Muslim families.
Muslim women.
Muslims > Cultural assimilation.
Women, Somali.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Gender, immigration and the Somali community of Columbus, Ohio
  • Islam, gender and ijtihad
  • Researching immigrant integration
  • Gender identity and gender roles in Somali immigrant families
  • Gender relationships and Somali immigrant integration
  • Ijtihad, gender and transnational integration.

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