Multiform transmission and belonging: Buddhist social spaces of Thai migrant women in Belgium
The Thai migration to Belgium is numerically a woman-led phenomenon, which has captured social attention for the last decades. This attention entails stereotypes about Thai migrant women as ‘workers’ in the intimate industry and/or ‘exotic wives’ of Belgianmen. To challenge these stereotypes, the present paper explores the often-ignored dimension of Thai women’s sociality. Specifically, it examines the transmission dynamics occurring in their Buddhist social spaces, which shape and reinforce their sense o fbelonging. To do so, it draws from ethnographic fieldwork with Thai migrant women and ke... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Schlagwörter: | Sciences sociales / Belgium / Buddhist social spaces / multiform transmission / Thai Buddhist temples / Thai migrant women |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26600936 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/353187 |