Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration: Spousal Relationships Among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom

by Natasha Carver

Book Overview

Winner of the 2022 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize​

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978805535
• ISBN13: 9781978805538
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher