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Moroccan immigrant women in Spain : honor and marriage / T. Thao Pham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pham, T. Thao, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women immigrants--Spain--Social conditions--21st century.
- Women immigrants.
- Moroccans--Spain--Social conditions--21st century.
- Moroccans.
- Women--Morocco--Social conditions--21st century.
- Women.
- Honor--Social aspects--Morocco.
- Honor.
- Marriage--Social aspects--Morocco.
- Marriage.
- Marriage--Social aspects.
- Honor--Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Morocco.
- Spain.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 183 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
- Summary:
- Moroccan Immigrant Women in Spain: Honor and Marriage provides an ethnographic study that chronicles the predicaments and strategies of Moroccan women's adaptation to Spanish society. Moroccan immigrant, women's social and emotional connections to honor and duty affect familial relations, identity, and their sense of belonging: Although these women have kept transnational ties to friends and families in Morocco, the establishment of new relationships and networks presents them with information, ideas, and opportunities that result in a complex process of altering their imported ideas and practices. This book also reveals and explores the geopolitical tension that affects these women's interactions and negotiations with various Spanish institutions and how representations of Islam affect the Spanish reception and treatment of Moroccans. Working as domestic workers and agricultural laborers in Spain, Moroccan immigrant women illuminate the problems associated with gender, labor, modernity, and globalization. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The politics of space and place
- Gender and migratory honor
- Traditional marriages and honor
- Transnational endogamy
- Virgins and virtues
- Dishonor and its discontents
- Divorce and singlehood
- Veiling and embodied honor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739183915
- 0739183915
- 9780739183922
- 0739183923
- OCLC:
- 870891526
- Publisher Number:
- 40023181839
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