Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture and Identity

by Haideh Moghissi (Editor)

Overview

Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country.

The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the Diaspora and demonstrate that identity is always constructed in relation to others. They show how religious identity in diaspora is mediated by many other factors such as:

• Gender
• Class
• Ethnic origin
• National status

A central aim is to understand Diaspora as an agent of social and cultural change, particularly in its transformative impact on women. Throughout, the book advances a more nuanced understanding of the notions of ethnicity, difference and rights. It makes an important contribution to understanding the complex processes of formation and adoption of transnational identities and the challenging contradictions of a world that is being rapidly globalized in economic and political terms, and yet is increasingly localized and differentiated, ethically and culturally.

Muslim Diaspora includes contributions from outstanding scholars and is an invaluable text for students in sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies, Islamic studies, women’s studies as well as the general reader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135985400
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/24/2007
Series:	Routledge Islamic Studies Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	511 KB

About the Author

Haideh Moghissi

Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Diaspora and Identity: Violence and Exile Representation 1. Diaspora: History of a Concept 2. Diaspora, Violence and Identity 3. Islam and Consecrated Tortures 4. Islam in Diaspora and Challenges to Multiculturalism: Shar’ia in Canada 5. Exilic Reading of Three Religious Texts Part 2: Home and Exile: Gender and the Politics of Memory 6. Divided Communities of Memory: Diasporas Come Home 7. Our Reflections in their Mirror 8. In the Shadow of Europe: Mediterranean Diasporas and Identity: Yesterday and Today 9. Gender, Nation and Diaspora: Kurdish Women in Feminist Transnational Struggles 10. Discourses of Islam/Secularism and Identity Building Processes among Turkish University Youth Part 3: Contested Terrains: Islam, Gender and Struggles for Continuity and Change 11. The Hijab Controversies in Western Public Schools: Contrasting Conceptions of Ethnicity and of Ethnic Relations 12. Islamophobia and Women of Pakistani Descent in Bradford: The Crisis of Ascribed and Adopted Identities 13. Diasporic Narratives on Virginity 14. Iranian American Elderly in California’s Santa Clara Valley: Crafting Selves and Composing Lives 15. Like Parvin, Like Najiba, Like Heba, We Are All Different: Reflections on Voices of Women in Diaspora