Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia

Haci Akman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities, at the University of Bergen, Norway. His research focuses on ethnicity, migration and diaspora, cultural heritage, and identity.  His recent publications include Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity (co-edited, Berghahn Books, 2008).

“This book is recommended for all those interested in identity, gender and diaspora, and migration studies more broadly. The topics covered by the authors also recommend it for those interested in belonging, the state, political engagement and resistance.” • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale“It is the empirical cases analysed in each chapter that present insightful readings of the conditions and circumstances that women migrants meet in a Scandinavian context.” • Nordic Journal of Migration Research“The anthology provides careful analysis based on rich empirical material that illuminates the complexity of the region (and of the migration processes that have occurred in the last thirty years) represented and acted upon as the Nordic…[Its] strength lies in its ability to pose central research questions at the crossroad between the making of the ‘Nordic’ and the original ways through which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation-state. This ability to move between the local and the global through original and reflexive methodologies locates the anthology’s work within a broader international scholarship.” • Diana Mulinari, Center for Gender Studies, University of Lund

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reasserting the Centrality of Women in DiasporasHaci AkmanPART I: BARGAINING AND NEGOTIATING IDENTITIESChapter 1. Art as Political Expression in the DiasporaHaci AkmanChapter 2. Islamic Identity in Third Space: Muslim Women Negotiating Subjectivity in SwedenPia Karlsson MingantiChapter 3. Political Muslim Women in the News MediaRikke AndreassenChapter 4. Finding Their Own Way Between Revolutionary Adult Feminism and Well-behaved Veiled Girlhood – Female Migrants in DenmarkMalene Fenger-GrøndahlChapter 5. Being a Kurdish Woman in Sweden: Diaspora, Gender and Politics of BelongingMinoo AliniaPART II: HOME POLITICS, HOST POLICIES AND RESISTANCEChapter 6. Kurdish Women of the Diaspora and Political ParticipationKariane WestrheimChapter 7. Territorial Stigmatisation, Inequality of Schooling and Identity Formation Among Young ImmigrantsBolette MoldenhawerChapter 8. The Absence of Strategy and the Absence of Bildung – When Integration Policy Cannot SucceedTina KallehaveNotes on ContributorsIndex