Understanding Gender and Diversity in Europe : Experiences of Migrant Single Mothers in Denmark

• Autore: Mehdi Rubya
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (404 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.48
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Rationale and Structure -- 1.1 Theoretical Framework of Analysis -- 1.2 Who Are Danish-Pakistani Single Women? -- 1.3 Why Minority Single Women for the Study of Mélange? -- 1.4 Women and Migration from Pakistan to Denmark: Phases in the Change of Family Dynamic -- 1.5 Methodology -- Narrations -- Fiction and Pakistani Migrant Women -- 1.6 Other Sources -- 1.7 Transnational Relations -- 1.8 Migrant Single Women/Mothers in European Countries -- 1.9 Structure of the Book -- Chapter 2: Relational Collectivism and Individualism: Framing of Mélange Familism -- Chapter 3: Danish-Pakistani Single Mothers/Women: A Way of Life -- Chapter 4: Mélange Legalism: Law in the Everyday Lives of Single Mothers/Women -- Chapter 5: Single Women and Divorce -- Chapter 6: Widowhood -- Chapter 7: Never-Married Women in Pakistan -- Chapter 8: Single Women in Later Lives -- Conclusion and a Postscript -- Chapter 2: Relational Collectivism and Individualism Revisited: Framing of Mélange Familism -- 2.1 Relational Collectivism -- Family Social Structure and Ideology Under Relational Collectivism -- Marriage and Sexual Norms in Relational Collectivism -- Parenting Under Relational Collectivism -- Paid and Unpaid Work: Women in Relational-Collectivist Societies -- Challenges: Relational Collectivism -- Divorcees, Widows and Never-Married Women -- Negotiated Relational Collectivism -- Runaway Women -- State and Society in Pakistan -- Women´s Movements in Pakistan -- Changing Relational-Collectivist Societies -- 2.2 Individualism -- What Is Individualism? -- Women´s Movement Before the 1960s and 1970s -- Women´s Movements of the 1960s and `70s in Denmark -- Family Structure and Individualism -- Togetherness and Individualism -- Non-Traditional Ways of Living Together. ; Individualisation of Marriage Institution: Confluent and Passionate Love and Egalitarian Family Relations -- 2.3 Women and Individualism -- Independence: The Full-Time Dual-Earner Family Model -- Self-Determination: Women´s Control Over Their Bodies -- Equality: Gender Roles, Individualism and Social Motherhood -- 2.4 Parenting -- Motherhood -- Laws Dealing with the Relationship Between Children and Parents Individualised -- 2.5 Kinship Relations -- 2.6 Single Mothers -- Separating and Divorcing Society: Individualism and Single Mothers in Denmark -- Single Motherhood and Economic Classes -- Single Mothers´ Conditions and Lack of Basics -- Assumption of Equality: Logic of Neoliberalism -- State Way of Dealing with the Principle of Individual Responsibility -- Family Ways of Dealing with Single Mothers: Support and Individual Responsibility -- 2.7 Towars Mélange Familism -- Agency -- Women´s Agency Under Relational Collectivism -- Covert and Overt Barriers to Agency -- Literature About the New Identities of Migrants -- Muddy Boundary Lines Between Relational Collectivism and Individualism -- 2.8 Mélange Familism -- Chapter 3: A Way of Life: Danish-Pakistani Single Mothers -- 3.1 Family Related Issues and Mélange Familism -- Employment -- Salaried Employment of Women and Individualisation -- Housekeeping -- Marriage -- Marriage in the First Phase of Family Formation -- Arranged marriages -- Marriage in the Second Phase of Family Formation -- Runaway Young Women in Denmark: Negotiability of Tradition and Modernity -- Love Marriages Versus Compassionate Marriages -- Single Mothers´ Attitude Toward the Marriages of Their Children -- Remarriage of Widows and Divorcees -- Issues of Sexuality -- Segregation -- Ignorance About Sex and the Reproductive Process: Challenges of Individualism -- Sex Education -- Sex Before Marriage. ; Family Structure: Individualisation of the Extended Family -- Extended Family Individualised -- Extended Family in the First Phase of Family Formation -- Extended Family in the Second Phase of Family Formation -- Female Marriage-Migrant and Extended Family -- Male Marriage-Migrants and Extended Family -- The Third Phase of Family Formation: The Emergence of a New Type of Extended Family -- The Extended Family Concept is Renewed and Adjusted -- Parenting -- Single-Mother Parenting: A New Framework of Understanding -- Children-Centred Lives -- Strict Discipline and Obedience -- Education -- Relationships of Adult Children with their Elderly Single Mothers -- 3.2 Ways of Belonging -- Transnational Relationship in the First Two Phases of Family Formation -- Transnational Relationship in the Third Phase of Family Formation -- Community -- Formation of Community -- Gender and Traditional Pakistani Community -- Single Mothers/Women in Need of a Community: Push and Pull -- Community Tools to Control and Discipline: Single Mothers -- Change in Community -- Competing Communities: Women´s Networks -- Single Mothers and Danish Society -- The Positive Role of the Welfare State in the First Phase of Migration -- Single Mothers and Neoliberalism and Neo-Conservatism -- The Danish Feminist Movement and Migrant Women in Denmark -- 3.3 Rituals and Emotions -- Mélange Familism and Rituals -- Women as the Main Actors in Family Rituals -- Wedding Rituals -- Marriage Proposals -- Henna (Mehndi Rite) -- Contraction of Wedding Rituals -- Distortions of Wedding Rituals -- Rituals Related to Extended Family -- Give-and-Take Relationships -- Celebration-Rituals -- Childbirth Rituals -- Death Related Rituals -- Widows Dresses Simply -- Last Immersion -- Women´s Access to Visit Graveyards for Burial -- Giving Shoulder During the Funeral Procession -- Funeral Procession. ; Emotions, Feelings and Moral Values -- Transnational Interaction and Replacement of Emotions: Cultural Geography of Emotions -- Melange and Emotional Shift from Relational Collectivism Towards Individualism -- Emotions and Habitus -- Emotional Change and Single Mothers -- Emotions in Context: Identity and Self-Understanding -- Widows and Feelings of Pity -- Sacrifice and Patience (Sabra): Moral Values and Emotions -- Chapter 4: Mélange Familism and Family Law: The Law in Everyday Lives of Single Mothers/Women -- 4.1 Perspectives on Sources of Laws in Pakistan: An Ailing Colonial and Post-colonial Administration of Justice -- Anglo-Mumammadam Laws: First Source of Law -- Legacy of the Colonial Adjudication of Justice After Independence -- Religion: Second Source of Law -- Customary Laws: Third Source of Law -- 4.2 Individualism: Formation of the Danish Law: Influences and Sources -- Internal Sources and Influences -- External Sources and Influences -- What Is Danish Family Law? -- Individualism and Danish Family-Related Laws -- Neo-liberalist and Neo-conservatism Legal Sphere in Denmark -- No Distinction Between Private and Public: Individualist Family Values from Above -- 4.3 Dynamic of Mélange Legalism -- Individualisation of Muslim Legal Tradition -- Marriage as a Contract -- Is Marriage a Contract or Status under Relational Collectivism? -- Marriage Contract Under Individualism: Dynamic of Change, a Shift from Status to Contract -- Marriage Guardian (Wali) -- Role of Marriage-Guardian (Wali) Under Relational Collectivism -- The Danish-Pakistani Practice of Marriage Guardian (Wali) -- Maintenance Within Marriage -- Maintenance of Wife, Children and Elderly Parents -- Women´s Right to Maintenance Under Relational Collectivism: Conditioned to Her Duty to be Obedient to Her Husband -- Mutual Maintenance Under Individualism in Denmark -- Polygamy. ; Polygamy Under Relational Collectivism -- Polygamy Among the Danish-Pakistani -- Mahr -- Mahr, Under the Relational Collectivist Tradition -- Mahr: in the Relational Collectivist Breadwinner Society of Pakistan -- Problems Related to the Payment of Deferred Mahr -- Mahr Among Danish-Pakistanis: Mélange -- Divorce -- Divorce: Individualisation -- Iddat -- The Practice of Iddat in Relational Collectivism: Pakistan -- The practice of iddat in Denmark -- Post-divorce Maintenance: Within or Beyond Iddat -- Post-divorce Maintenance Under Collectivism -- Post-divorce Maintenance in Denmark -- Custody -- Custody Dealing/Matters Among the Danish-Pakistani Community -- 4.4 Mélange: Perspective Towards Inter-legal Feminist Jurisprudence -- From Legal Pluralism to Fractal Pluralism -- Marriage as a Contract in Comparative Perspective -- Mahr in Comparative Perspective -- New Interpretations of Muslim Legal Tradition and Consciousness-Raising -- Supplement to the Section on Mahr: -- Appendix 1 Marriage Contract Pakistan -- Appendix 2 Marriage Contract India -- Appendix 3 Marriage Contract Danish Islamic Center -- Appendix 4 Mariam Mosque Marriage Contract -- Chapter 5: Creators of Independent Lives: Danish-Pakistani Divorcees -- 5.1 Five Narrators: Life Before Divorce -- 5.2 Marriage and Divorce -- Marriage and Problems in Married Life -- Tahira -- Abida -- Zabida -- Parveen -- Saba -- Main Issues of the Divorce -- Extended Families -- Problems with Transnational Extended Families -- Oppressive Transnational Extended Families -- Problems with Physical Extended Family -- Infidelity and Polygamy -- Employment in Denmark: Double work for Women -- Divorce-Related Support and Challenges -- Long Delays for Mothers/Women to Initiate Divorce -- Transnational Extended Families Support During the Divorce Process -- Relationship with Ex-husbands. ; Divorce-Related Legal Matters.
• ISBN: 3-031-40893-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910835057203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II