Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration: Spousal Relationships Among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom

By Natasha Carver

Book Overview

Winner of the 2022 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize​

This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by Somali refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, being a refugee is described as making "everything" feel "different, mixed up, upside down." Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration details how Somali gendered identities are contested, negotiated, and (re)produced within a framework of religious and politico-national discourses, finding that the most significant catalysts for challenging and changing harmful gender practices are a combination of the welfare system and Islamic praxis. Described as "an important and urgent monograph," this book will be a key text relevant to scholars of migration, transnational families, personal life, and gender. Written in a beautiful and accessible style, the book voices the participants with respect and compassion, and is also recommended for scholars of qualitative social research methods.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978805543
• ISBN13: 9781978805545
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher