Establishing a Family in the Nile Delta

Emigration, Transnational Marriage and the Social Repositioning of Women

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ID12955336
AuthorsCélia Lamblin (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume14
Issue1
Pages115-140
Publication date2021-03-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrican Diaspora (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1872-5457 • E-ISSN: 1872-5465
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18725465-bja10012
OpenAlexW3135818017
LanguageEN
References cited33

In Egypt, the economic costs incurred by spouses to pay for a marriage are huge, going far beyond the parties’ regular income. Migration often appears to be the only possible way to amass the capital required to pay the expenses associated with their establishment as a couple and to support the household. This article is based on data collected in the course of several ethnographic surveys carried out between 2014 and 2017 in a village in the Nile Delta, and deals with the issue of establishing a family in the context of migration for men who have left for France, and for women who remain in the village. It presents the marriage of migrants in the village as an instrument which both guarantees the homecoming of the men who have emigrated and enables the upward social mobility of women without however challenging the patriarchal organisation of Egyptian society

Ancient history · Capital (architecture · Context (archaeology · Delta · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Geography · Homecoming · Nile delta · Social capital · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Anthropology · Engineering · History · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Identity, and Health · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender

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