Islam, gender and migrant integration
Subtitle: the case of Somali immigrant families
By: Nahla al Huraibi
Series: The New Americans: recent immigration and American society
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: El Paso
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781593326005
Subjects: Somalis; Cultural assimilation; Muslims; Immigrants; Immigrant families; Muslim families; Somali Women; Muslim women; Sex role; Emigration and immigration; Social aspects
Description: 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. --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender, immigration and the Somali community of Columbus, Ohio; title: Islam, gender and ijtihad; title: Researching immigrant integration; title: Gender identity and gender roles in Somali immigrant families; title: Gender relationships and Somali immigrant integration; title: Ijtihad, gender and transnational integration.