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dc.contributor.advisorFerraro, Emilia
dc.contributor.advisorReid, Louise Anne
dc.contributor.authorFolly, Rebecca P.F.
dc.coverage.spatialiii, 232 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-20T09:13:57Z
dc.date.available2015-03-20T09:13:57Z
dc.date.issued2015-06-24
dc.identifieruk.bl.ethos.640830
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/6273
dc.description.abstractMuslim family members constitute a significant migration flow to the UK (Kofman et al., 2013). Despite such observations, this form of mobility is under-explored in geographic scholarship on migration. Accordingly, this thesis examines the subjective experiences of migration of a small group of Muslim women, who migrated either with or to join their families in Scotland. Participant observation, focus groups and the life narratives of eight women are used to gain an in-depth understanding of both the reasons for and the consequences of migration for this group of Muslim women. In addition, this thesis examines the role of a secular community-based organisation in supporting migrants in their everyday lives. Drawing on conceptual approaches to migration, this study reveals diverse and complex motivations among participants in “choosing” to migrate. Far from “victims” or “trailing wives”, participants privileged their children’s needs but also the possibility to transform their sense of self through migration. The study draws attention to the struggles of daily life in Scotland where, bereft of extended family, the synchronisation of migration with childbirth resulted in some participants enduring years of isolation. Such struggles resulted in changes in the home, with husbands providing both physical and emotional support. The experience of migration affected the women’s religious identities, providing solace as well as a way to assert belonging in Scotland by drawing on Islamic theology. The community-based organisation provided a “safe space”, bridging the secular and non-secular and offering women the chance to socialise, learn and volunteer. The study shows that volunteering provided not only a way into paid work but also shaped women’s subjectivities and home lives. However, the re-direction of national government funding towards “Muslim problems” threatens to undermine the organisation’s ability to continue to meet the local needs of Muslim migrant women.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrewsen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectMuslim geographiesen_US
dc.subjectMigrationen_US
dc.subjectMigrant womenen_US
dc.subjectEthnographyen_US
dc.subjectNon-profit organisationsen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectFeminist methodologyen_US
dc.subject.lccJV7708.F7
dc.subject.lcshScotland--Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--Islamen_US
dc.subject.lcshWomen immigrants--Scotlanden_US
dc.subject.lcshMuslim families--Scotlanden_US
dc.titleThe subjective experiences of Muslim women in family-related migration to Scotlanden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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