TY - BOOK ID - 86170187 TI - Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration : Spousal Relationships among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom. PY - 2021 SN - 1978805578 1978805543 PB - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Immigrant families KW - Marriage KW - Muslim families KW - Muslims KW - Sex role KW - Somalis KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. KW - Social conditions. KW - Cultural assimilation KW - gender roles, marital relationships, spouse, spousal relationships, Somali, Somali Muslims, refugee, marriage, UK, United Kingdom, religious discourse, politico-national discourse, gender practices, welfare system, migration, transnational families, personal life, wedding, Islamic praxis, Islamic, divorce, Existential Crisis, family, children, british, Great Britain, Britain, politics of marriage, politics of marriage and migration, gender, families, family culture. KW - Somal KW - Somali KW - Somalians KW - Somals KW - Cushites KW - Ethnology KW - Mohammedans KW - Moors (People) KW - Moslems KW - Muhammadans KW - Musalmans KW - Mussalmans KW - Mussulmans KW - Mussulmen KW - Religious adherents KW - Islam KW - Families, Muslim KW - Families KW - Families of emigrants UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86170187 AB - This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by Somali refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, being a refugee is described as making "everything" feel "different, mixed up, upside down." Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration details how Somali gendered identities are contested, negotiated, and (re)produced within a framework of religious and politico-national discourses, finding that the most significant catalysts for challenging and changing harmful gender practices are a combination of the welfare system and Islamic praxis. Described as “an important and urgent monograph," this book will be a key text relevant to scholars of migration, transnational families, personal life, and gender. Written in a beautiful and accessible style, the book voices the participants with respect and compassion, and is also recommended for scholars of qualitative social research methods. ER -