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Al Huraibi Nahla <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Islam, gender and migrant integration : the case of Somali immigrant families / / Nahla al Huraibi |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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El Paso : , : LFB Scholarly Publishing, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (227 p.) |
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Collana |
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The new Americans: recent immigration and American society |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 f |
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