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Social scientists and a journalist explore the experience of women who migrate to Scandinavia, based on the notion that men and women have difference experiences of and reactions to exclusion and inclusion. Their topics include art as political expression in diaspora, Muslim women activists negotiating subjectivity in Sweden, finding their own way between revolutionary adult feminism and well-behaved veiled girlhood in Denmark, learning processes and political literacy among women in the Norwegian Kurdish diaspora, and the absence of strategy and the absence of bildung. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and political life, public debate, and art. This volume focuses on immigration and the concept of diaspora through the experiences of women living in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Through a variety of case studies, the authors approach the multifaceted nature of interactions between these women and their adopted countries, considering both the local and the global. The text examines the “making of the Scandinavian” and the novel ways in which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation state.
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