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Moroccan Immigrant Women in Spain

Honor and Marriage

T. Thao Pham Ph.D

Immigrant Moroccan Women in Spain: Honor and Marriage provides an ethnographic study of Moroccan Muslim immigrant women in Spain that captures the predicaments and strategies used in their adaptation to Spanish society. Moroccan immigrant women’s social and emotional connections to honor and duty affect familial relations, identity, and the sense of belonging. Although the women have kept transnational ties to friends and families 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 the 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.

Lexington Books

Pages: 192 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9½

978-0-7391-8391-5 • Hardback • December 2013 • $120.00 • (£92.00)

978-1-4985-5638-5 • Paperback • March 2017 • $55.99 • (£43.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / General, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Political Science / World / African, History / Europe / Spain & Portugal, Religion / Islam / General, Social Science / World / Africa, Social Science / Population Geography, Social Science / Culture, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Socialization, Philosophy / Gender Philosophy

Moroccan Immigrant Women in Spain

Honor and Marriage

Hardback

Paperback

Summary

Immigrant Moroccan Women in Spain: Honor and Marriage provides an ethnographic study of Moroccan Muslim immigrant women in Spain that captures the predicaments and strategies used in their adaptation to Spanish society. Moroccan immigrant women’s social and emotional connections to honor and duty affect familial relations, identity, and the sense of belonging. Although the women have kept transnational ties to friends and families 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 the 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.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 192 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9½

978-0-7391-8391-5 • Hardback • December 2013 • $120.00 • (£92.00)

978-1-4985-5638-5 • Paperback • March 2017 • $55.99 • (£43.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / General, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Political Science / World / African, History / Europe / Spain & Portugal, Religion / Islam / General, Social Science / World / Africa, Social Science / Population Geography, Social Science / Culture, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Socialization, Philosophy / Gender Philosophy

Author

T. Thao Pham, PhD, is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Politics of Space and Place
Chapter 2: Gender and Migratory Honor
Chapter 3: Traditional Marriages and Honor
Chapter 4: Transnational Endogamy
Chapter 5: Virgins and Virtues
Chapter 6: Dishonor and Its Discontents
Chapter 7: Divorce and Singlehood
Chapter 8: Veiling and Embodied Honor
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author

Reviews

A sophisticated ethnography of female Moroccan migrants in Spain in which the concept of honor (once the defining attribute of Mediterranean study) is impressively rekindled to probe and frame the sociocultural changes and accommodations necessitated by transnational marriage. In these respects and more, Pham’s book is a most welcome contribution to anthropology and its emerging study of social institutions under cross-cultural pressure in transnational space and time.

— Lambros Comitas, Columbia University

Moroccan Immigrant Women in Spain

Honor and Marriage

T. Thao Pham Ph.D

Moroccan Immigrant Women in Spain

Honor and Marriage

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