Cultural Identities in Transition (eBook)

Voices of Saudi Arabian Mothers in New Zealand

Esra Yaghi, Roger Barnard (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
281 Seiten
Channel View Publications (Verlag)
978-1-80041-624-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the social, educational and linguistic acculturation of a group of Saudi wives and mothers sojourning in New Zealand while their husbands undertook full time study. Such sojourners, and their families, are faced with many challenges due to linguistic, social and cultural distance - as well as ethnic stereotyping and prejudice. They tell their stories in a series of interviews and focus groups, relating their pre-sojourn background, the challenges they faced and the changes they made during their sojourn, and their preparation for returning home post-sojourn. The narratives illustrate how these women renegotiated their own identities in relation to their changed circumstances and environment. The authors address the distinctive challenges faced by sojourners as opposed to immigrants, and present a nuanced and detailed picture of the women as individuals negotiating the complex interaction between the influence of the host country and the Saudi and Islamic identities of themselves and their children.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Language, Education and Diversity
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Acculturation • arabic • cultural challenges • educational acculturation • ethnic prejudice • ethnic stereotyping • ethnography • Islam • Islamic identities • Language Identity • language policy and planning • linguistic acculturation • linguistic challenges • minority and immigration studies • New Zealand • Religious Identity • Saudi Arabian women • Saudi identities • Saudi mothers • Saudi wives • Saudi Women • social acculturation • Social Challenges • Social Practice • Sojourn • sojourners
• ISBN-10: 1-80041-624-5 / 1800416245
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80041-624-6 / 9781800416246