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

Attiya Ahmad

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies). To get started finding Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies). To get started finding Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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