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Everyday Conversions – Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Autor Attiya Ahmad
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mar 2017
Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon. Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers' Muslim belonging emerges from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety in relation-but not opposition-to their existing religious practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822363330
ISBN-10: 082236333X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 159 x 236 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies


Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Everyday Conversions 1
1. Temporariness 37
2. Suspension 67
3. Naram 101
4. Housetalk 124
5. Fitra 157
Epilogue. Ongoing Conversions 191
Appendix 1. Notes on Fieldwork 201
Appendix 2. Interlocutors' Names and Connections to One Another 207
Glossary 211
Notes 219
References 245
Index 265

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Descriere

Attiya Ahmad examines the practice of conversion to Islam by South Asian migrant domestic workers in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region and how these women's conversions stem from an ongoing process rooted in their everyday experiences as migrant workers rather than a clean break from their preexisting lives.