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9780415267038

Gender in Transnationalism: Home, Longing and Belonging Among Moroccan Migrant Women

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415267038

  • ISBN10:

    041526703X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-07-29
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book investigates the transnational lives of contemporary Moroccan migrant women and their families living in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. Based on new ethnographic data, it offers an innovative analysis of transnational migration, in a context of changing notions and experiences of locality, identity, difference and citizenship.

Author Biography

Ruba Salih is a social anthropologist and a research fellow at the University of Bologna.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements x
1 Introduction 1(25)
2 Ambivalent frontiers: Moroccan women, transnational migration and nation-states 26(27)
3 Constructing self and home between Italy and Morocco 53(28)
4 The transnational division of ritual space: reformulating 'tradition' and 'modernity' 81(18)
5 Migration, Islam and modernities 99(19)
6 Narrating the self, narrating the other: shifting boundaries of culture and identity 118(20)
7 (De)constructing citizenship: cultural difference and migrants' rights in Italy 138(15)
8 Conclusions 153(14)
Bibliography 167(19)
Index 186

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