Abir Mohamad Ismail
Biographic Data
| ID | 224836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abir Mohamad Ismail |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abir Mohamad |
| FAMILY NAME | Ismail |
| SIGNATURE | ISMAIL A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9477-707X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Doing care, doing gender’: Towards a rethinking of gender and elderly care in the Arab Muslim families in Denmark
This article draws on two in-depth stories of an Arab-Danish Muslim woman and an Arab-Danish Muslim man to explore how they ‘do gender’ when ‘doing care’ for their elderly parents in their everyday lives. Analysis of ethnographic material reveals that for the Arab-Danish Muslim woman, ‘doing care’ is regarded as a right which provides her with the opportunity to become irreplaceable and enables her to realize herself. In her self-realization, it …
Hvis du kun har en hammer, ligner alt et søm: Replik til essay “Omsorg og social kontrol: paragraf 94-ordningen under behandling
Det er naturligvis dejligt med læsere, når et forskningsprojekt munder ud i en bog som “Minoritetsældre og selvudpegede hjælpere: Kommunal velfærd og omsorg i forandring” (Rytter, Sparre, Ismail og Liversage 2021), der kaster lys over et i dansk sammenhæng hidtil ubeskrevet område – nemlig indvandrer- og flygtningefamiliers strategier i forhold til ældreomsorg. Men i stedet for at forholde sig til bogens problemstilling om omsorgsarbejde og ældre…
Doing Piety through Care: Embodied Enactments of the Qur’an and Gender Perceptions in Muslim families in Contemporary Denmark
This article takes the practice of elderly care as a starting place to discuss how Muslim men and women “do” piety when doing elderly care in their everyday lives. It introduces and analyses central passages in the Qur’an and the Hadiths that deal with birr-al- walidayn (filial piety), ‘awra (the intimate body parts that must be covered), and ‘ayb (shame/shamefulness) since they all appear as central concepts in the Islamic tradition of elderly c…
‘Migrant Carer- Wives’ – Between Transnational Marriages, Care Work for Older Husbands and Gendered Precarity
Migration is traditionally categorised into migration for work or family. However, utilising interviews with both immigrant families and publically employed care managers, this study documents the existence of a hybrid type, involving migrant wives who arrive to care for substantially older husbands – an arrangement about which Danish care managers use the term ‘fetched wives’. Register data also document that the relatively infrequent remarriage…
Escaping the house of secrets: Auto-ethnographic reflections on the complexities of field exit
While a large body of auto-ethnographic literature focuses on the bias associated with conducting methodological research as 'insiders' and examines the implications of their backgrounds for their research design, the interpretation of the data and the complexities of their position for the research, less reflection exists in the literature on the complexities of exiting the field. Drawing on auto-ethnographic reflections from fieldwork among Ara…
Care in practice: Negotiations regarding care for the elderly in multigenerational Arab Muslim families in Denmark
Recent studies conclude that ethnic minority families in Denmark tend to be dismissive of senior housing and municipal homecare services for elderly family members. A large proportion of Muslim minority families in Denmark attach great importance to caring for the elderly as a tradition and prefer to take care of their own elderly family members at home. Nevertheless, the fact that morality, incentives, and obligations in relation to care for the…
Food as care and friction in late life: Marginalization of Muslim immigrant families in the Danish welfare state
Food is a central aspect of care in late life. This article focuses on the growing number of elderly Muslim immigrants in Denmark who on the basis of Service Act §94 can have a family member employed by the municipality as their “self-appointed helper.” The task is often given to a spouse, daughter or daughter-in-law, whose task is then to provide the care services for which the elderly person has been referred. Usually this would be undertaken b…
Det forestilte baklandet: Hjem og tilhørighet i alderdom
Livets forgjengelighet tydeliggjøres i alderdommen. Mange må gjenetablere sin plass i livet. I denne artikkelen utforsker vi nye måter å være hjemme på i alderdommen, i form av nye/gamle former for tilhørighet og forestillinger forankret i rom og tid. Vi bygger på langvarige feltarbeid blant tre eldre damer som hver for seg har blitt fordrevet og evakuert fra sitt første hjem og bor henholdsvis i Danmark, tibetansk eksil i India og Grønland. Vi u…
Care in practice: Negotiations regarding care for the elderly in multigenerational Arab Muslim families in Denmark
Recent studies conclude that ethnic minority families in Denmark tend to be dismissive of senior housing and municipal homecare services for elderly family members. A large proportion of Muslim minority families in Denmark attach great importance to caring for the elderly as a tradition and prefer to take care of their own elderly family members at home. Nevertheless, the fact that morality, incentives, and obligations in relation to care for the…
Food as care and friction in late life: Marginalization of Muslim immigrant families in the Danish welfare state
Food is a central aspect of care in late life. This article focuses on the growing number of elderly Muslim immigrants in Denmark who on the basis of Service Act §94 can have a family member employed by the municipality as their “self-appointed helper.” The task is often given to a spouse, daughter or daughter-in-law, whose task is then to provide the care services for which the elderly person has been referred. Usually this would be undertaken b…
Escaping the house of secrets: Auto-ethnographic reflections on the complexities of field exit
While a large body of auto-ethnographic literature focuses on the bias associated with conducting methodological research as 'insiders' and examines the implications of their backgrounds for their research design, the interpretation of the data and the complexities of their position for the research, less reflection exists in the literature on the complexities of exiting the field. Drawing on auto-ethnographic reflections from fieldwork among Ara…
Care in practice: Negotiations regarding care for the elderly in multigenerational Arab Muslim families in Denmark
Recent studies conclude that ethnic minority families in Denmark tend to be dismissive of senior housing and municipal homecare services for elderly family members. A large proportion of Muslim minority families in Denmark attach great importance to caring for the elderly as a tradition and prefer to take care of their own elderly family members at home. Nevertheless, the fact that morality, incentives, and obligations in relation to care for the…
Food as care and friction in late life: Marginalization of Muslim immigrant families in the Danish welfare state
Food is a central aspect of care in late life. This article focuses on the growing number of elderly Muslim immigrants in Denmark who on the basis of Service Act §94 can have a family member employed by the municipality as their “self-appointed helper.” The task is often given to a spouse, daughter or daughter-in-law, whose task is then to provide the care services for which the elderly person has been referred. Usually this would be undertaken b…
Det forestilte baklandet: Hjem og tilhørighet i alderdom
Livets forgjengelighet tydeliggjøres i alderdommen. Mange må gjenetablere sin plass i livet. I denne artikkelen utforsker vi nye måter å være hjemme på i alderdommen, i form av nye/gamle former for tilhørighet og forestillinger forankret i rom og tid. Vi bygger på langvarige feltarbeid blant tre eldre damer som hver for seg har blitt fordrevet og evakuert fra sitt første hjem og bor henholdsvis i Danmark, tibetansk eksil i India og Grønland. Vi u…
‘Migrant Carer- Wives’ – Between Transnational Marriages, Care Work for Older Husbands and Gendered Precarity
Migration is traditionally categorised into migration for work or family. However, utilising interviews with both immigrant families and publically employed care managers, this study documents the existence of a hybrid type, involving migrant wives who arrive to care for substantially older husbands – an arrangement about which Danish care managers use the term ‘fetched wives’. Register data also document that the relatively infrequent remarriage…
Escaping the house of secrets: Auto-ethnographic reflections on the complexities of field exit
While a large body of auto-ethnographic literature focuses on the bias associated with conducting methodological research as 'insiders' and examines the implications of their backgrounds for their research design, the interpretation of the data and the complexities of their position for the research, less reflection exists in the literature on the complexities of exiting the field. Drawing on auto-ethnographic reflections from fieldwork among Ara…
Doing Piety through Care: Embodied Enactments of the Qur’an and Gender Perceptions in Muslim families in Contemporary Denmark
This article takes the practice of elderly care as a starting place to discuss how Muslim men and women “do” piety when doing elderly care in their everyday lives. It introduces and analyses central passages in the Qur’an and the Hadiths that deal with birr-al- walidayn (filial piety), ‘awra (the intimate body parts that must be covered), and ‘ayb (shame/shamefulness) since they all appear as central concepts in the Islamic tradition of elderly c…
‘Doing care, doing gender’: Towards a rethinking of gender and elderly care in the Arab Muslim families in Denmark
This article draws on two in-depth stories of an Arab-Danish Muslim woman and an Arab-Danish Muslim man to explore how they ‘do gender’ when ‘doing care’ for their elderly parents in their everyday lives. Analysis of ethnographic material reveals that for the Arab-Danish Muslim woman, ‘doing care’ is regarded as a right which provides her with the opportunity to become irreplaceable and enables her to realize herself. In her self-realization, it …
Hvis du kun har en hammer, ligner alt et søm: Replik til essay “Omsorg og social kontrol: paragraf 94-ordningen under behandling
Det er naturligvis dejligt med læsere, når et forskningsprojekt munder ud i en bog som “Minoritetsældre og selvudpegede hjælpere: Kommunal velfærd og omsorg i forandring” (Rytter, Sparre, Ismail og Liversage 2021), der kaster lys over et i dansk sammenhæng hidtil ubeskrevet område – nemlig indvandrer- og flygtningefamiliers strategier i forhold til ældreomsorg. Men i stedet for at forholde sig til bogens problemstilling om omsorgsarbejde og ældre…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Danish (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender and Women's Rights (2 works)