Bartered bridegrooms
Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy
By Dr Suriyah Bi
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- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-8132-9
- Pages: 248
- Price: £85.00
- Published Date: December 2024
Description
In this eye-opening ethnography, we learn about the experiences of Muslim migrant husbands from Pakistan and Kashmir, who marry their British counterparts in the hope of marital and global social mobility bliss. For many, the parallel and intertwined migration and marital journeys do not pan out in the way they had hoped. Many experience precarity and vulnerability within the household and/or in employment, with some even being subjected to harrowing forms of domestic violence. Migrant husbands navigate an increasingly hostile British immigration system not only in public but also in private, at the hands of their wives and in-laws. The ethnography demonstrates how citizenship can be deployed as a performance of white power within single group identity, differentiated through colonial legacies of 'Britishness'.
Reviews
This fascinating book explores the ways in which Pakistani migrant husbands negotiate their masculinity in a situation in which they are doubly vulnerable, both as racialized migrant Muslims and as junior males inserted into patriarchal extended family households. The research is both cutting-edge and vital, with real-life implications for Muslim communities and for British society as a whole. A must-read for social scientists of gender, migration, Islam, and South Asia, as well as immigration experts in Europe and beyond.
Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University
A fascinating and beautifully written exploration of an under-researched issue - the lives of young Muslim men who migrate to marry. This book is a powerful addition to recent scholarship revealing the complexities and contradictions of masculine identities in post-colonial Britain.
Professor Linda McDowell, St Johns College, Oxford.
Contents
Introduction
1 Transnational masculinity: the making of patriarchal aspirations across borders
2 Liminal masculinity: waithood, precarity and vulnerable migrant husbands
3 Reasserting masculinity: 'Songs of Sorrow' as practices of resistance
4 Spiritual masculinity: Sufi-scapes, Sabr, and religiosocial capital
5 Decolonising Muslim men: gender, race, and colonialism
Conclusion
References
Author
Suriyah Bi is Lecturer in Human Geography and Qualitative Research Methods in the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.
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