Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families

"A valuable contribution to wellbeing studies, notable especially for its novel attention to the ethical dimensions of wellbeing, especially in the context of Muslim womens perspectives; and its illuminating analysis of the ways that wellbeing emerges or is blocked in the interplay between transnational families relations with each other, the wider communities, and the state(s)." - Sarah White, University of Bath, UK

Marja Tiilikainen (PhD, Docent) is Senior Researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland. Mulki Al-Sharmani (PhD, Docent) is Senior Lecturer of Islamic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, Study of Religions Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the author of Gender Justice and Legal Reform in Egypt: Negotiating Muslim Family Law; the editor of Feminist Activism, Womens Rights and Legal Reform; and the co-editor of Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition. Sanna Mustasaari is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland.

1. Introduction: Wellbeing, Family Life, and Transnational Muslims in the West 2. Converts, Marriage, and the Dutch Nation-state: Contestations about Muslim Womens Wellbeing 3. Wellbeing, Law and Marriage: Recognition of Nikh in Multicultural Britain and the Finnish Welfare State 4. A Mosque Programme for the Wellbeing of Muslim Families 5. Polygamy, Wellbeing and Ill-being amongst Ethnic Muslim Minorities 6. Transnational Families Navigating the Law: Marriage, Divorce and Wellbeing 7. Somali Parents in Sweden: Navigating Parenting and Child Wellbeing 8. Transnational Finnish-Somali Families and Childrens Wellbeing 9. Raising Children of Somali Descent in Toronto: Challenges and Struggles for Everyday Security and Wellbeing 10. Childhood, Wellbeing and Transnational Migrant Families: Conceptual and Methodological Issues