‘Making Hijra’: mobility, religion and the everyday in the lives of women converts to Islam in the Netherlands
Abstract Drawing on long term research – including topical life stories, interviews and participant observation – we analyze how women converts to Islam in the Netherlands signify and experience making hijra . Our interlocutors, all observant Muslims, had left the Netherlands between the late 1990s and the mid 2010s. In the course of the last 5 years many have again returned to the Netherlands. Their life courses indicate that physical and existential mobility are interconnected in their everyday lives as well as in their migration trajectories. Whereas they considered conversion to Islam as m... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Contemporary Islam ; volume 15, issue 1, page 35-55 ; ISSN 1872-0218 1872-0226 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Schlagwörter: | Religious studies / Cultural Studies |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26849249 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11562-021-00463-5 |