Threatened Identities and Gendered Opportunities
Somali Migration to America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18970338 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cawo Abdi (corresponding author), Cawo Mohamed Abdi |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 459-483 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-6943 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/673380 |
| OpenAlex | W2331505203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 33 |
Migrants’ encounter with new economic and sociopolitical institutions often triggers contestations around normative gender arrangements. This article draws from ethnographic work with Somalis in Minnesota to analyze the dynamic ways that new opportunities and challenges in the settlement shape gender bargains. The study asks: How do migrant men and women articulate socioeconomic challenges and opportunities in the United States? In what ways are these articulations gendered, and what are the consequences of these articulations for the ways scholars think about migration, gender, and the role of public institutions in such matters? The analysis centralizes family conflict in part triggered by contact with new institutions such as the welfare regime and the police in America. The study concludes that migrants’ experiences in the context of reception as well as their religious beliefs privilege a reification of patriarchal ideologies and, thus, serve to curtail women’s opportunities to resist gender subordination
Context (archaeology) · Geography · Ideology · Normative · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing) · Sociology · Somali · Subaltern · Subordination (linguistics) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Making Refuge
Emotional support and mental health among Somali men in a rural Midwestern town
Immigrant Family Financial and Relationship Stress From the Covid-19 Pandemic
Evaluating the power of social media influencing mainstream media social representations of migrants in South African townships
Somali Stories
Experiences of gender-based violence among Somali refugee women
Somali American female refugees discuss their attitudes toward homosexuality and the gay and lesbian community
Hidden figures
Crimmigrating Narratives
Migration and livelihood constellations
Gender-Based Violence in the Lives of Somali Women With Refugee Status
Ambivalent returns
Bargaining with Confucian Patriarchy
Displacing refugees
Disclaimed or Reclaimed? Muslim Refugee Youth and Belonging in the Age of Hyperbolisation
The association between discrimination and violence among Somali Canadian youth
Re-learning to be a woman
This is Australia, not Ethiopia
To cross or not to cross
Marriage and Migration
Gendered Employment Precarity and Refugee Resettlement in the United States
The Power to Choose
Beyond the Veil
Women and Gender in Islam
Gender and the Family
Engendering Migration Studies
Family Tightrope
Muslims in the Diaspora
Immigrant America
Gendered Transitions
Black Feminist Thought
Woman's Role in Economic Development
In the Way of Women
Symbolic Action
Transmitting the Nontransmissible The Function of Literature in the Pursuit of Social Knowledge
Culture, Structure, and the Refugee Experience in Somali Immigrant Family Transformation
The Immigrant Family
Muslim Communities in Europe
Gendered Geographies of Power
The second shift
The Immigrant Family
Gender Relations and the Transformation of the Northern Somali Pastoral Tradition
Women's Voices in a Man's World
When Women Come First
Bargaining With Patriarchy
Gender, Migration and Social Change
Muslim Families from Morocco in the Netherlands
Women and Migration
Convergence of Civil War and the Religious Right
The Complexity of Intersectionality
Islam, gender, and immigrant integration
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,91 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |