Cultural Identities in Transition: Voices of Saudi Arabian Mothers in New Zealand

by Roger Barnard and Esra Yaghi

This book explores the social, educational and linguistic acculturation of a group of Saudi wives and mothers sojourning in New Zealand while their husbands undertook full time study. Such sojourners, and their families, are faced with many challenges due to linguistic, social and cultural distance - as well as ethnic stereotyping and prejudice. They tell their stories in a series of interviews and focus groups, relating their pre-sojourn background,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800416229
• ISBN13: 9781800416222
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 186 Pages