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1 online resource (viii, 184 pages). |
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nat Canadians |
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gdr Women |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in gender and history series ; 52
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Studies in gender and history ; 52.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Narrative, Memory, and Identity -- Gendered Narratives of State: The Project for the Rewriting of History -- Resisting the State: Shi'a, Chaldean, and Kurdish Women's Counter-narratives -- Towards an Affective Methodology: Interviewer, Translator, Participant -- Qahwa and Kleiche: Cookbooks, Coffee, and Conversation -- Policing Women's Bodies in Diaspora: Toronto and Detroit in Comparative Context -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"This book draws on an extensive archive of over one hundred oral narratives collected and recorded with Iraqi women in three settlement sites: Amman, Detroit, and Toronto. It demonstrates how the relationship between ethno-religious migrants, nation, and citizenship are shaped by the traumatic experiences of forced displacement and integration into new communities and national imaginaries. The book also examines broader historical trends that have precipitated migration from Iraq, and shaped existing networks into which these women integrate in North America. While informed by research into the limited archival documentary record on Iraqis in North America, the book is first and foremost a study of gender and memory that centers women's oral histories. It also examines how contemporary debates on global citizenship and religious feminism resonate for the individual. By historicizing the process by which ethno-religious and ethno-national communities become fractured and remade, the book explores the expectations and realities of women as the supposed biological and cultural reproducers of the nation. In diaspora, the Iraqi women of this study assert their claims to belonging across three different generations, thereby opening up spaces to discuss how sites of migration shape the ability of migrants to lobby for 'the homeland' even as they engage in daily struggles to advance their education and economic stability in Canada and the U.S."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Iraqis -- Migrations.
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Iraqis. |
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Women -- Iraq -- Biography.
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Women. |
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Iraq. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Iraqis -- Jordan -- Amman -- Ethnic identity.
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Jordan -- Amman. |
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Ethnicity. |
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Iraqis -- Jordan -- Amman -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Iraqis -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Ethnic identity.
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Michigan -- Detroit. |
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Iraqis -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social life and customs.
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Iraqis -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Ethnic identity.
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Ontario -- Toronto. |
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Iraqis -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social life and customs.
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Belonging (Social psychology)
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Belonging (Social psychology) |
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Group identity.
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Group identity. |
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HISTORY / North America. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones-Gailani, Nadia, 1982- Transnational identity and memory making in the lives of Iraqi women in diaspora. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020] 9781487503161 (DLC) 2020476208 (OCoLC)1145020025 |
| ISBN |
9781487517328 (epub) |
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1487517327 (epub) |
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9781487517311 (pdf) |
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1487517319 (pdf) |
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9781487503161 (hardcover) |
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