| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 217 pages .) |
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text file |
| Series |
The New Americans: recent immigration and American society
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New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Somalis -- Cultural assimilation -- United States.
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Somalis. |
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Assimilation (Sociology) |
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United States. |
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Muslims -- Cultural assimilation -- United States.
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Muslims -- Cultural assimilation. |
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Muslims. |
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Americanization.
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Americanization. |
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Immigrant families -- United States.
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Immigrant families. |
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Muslim families -- United States.
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Muslim families. |
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Women, Somali -- United States.
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Women, Somali. |
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Muslim women -- United States.
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Muslim women. |
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Sex role.
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Sex role. |
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
| Spine Title |
Social context of residential integration |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Al Huraibi, Nahla, 1966- Islam, gender and migrant integration. 9781593326005 1593326009 (DLC) 2013034573 |
| ISBN |
1593327439 (electronic book) |
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9781593327439 (electronic book) |
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9781593326005 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1593326009 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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