Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia

Haci Akman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities, at the University of Bergen, Norway. His research focuses on ethnicity, migration and diaspora, cultural heritage, and identity.  His recent publications include Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity (co-edited, Berghahn Books, 2008).

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Preface

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Reasserting the Centrality of Women in Diasporas

Haci Akman



PART I: BARGAINING AND NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES



Chapter 1. Art as Political Expression in the Diaspora

Haci Akman



Chapter 2. Islamic Identity in Third Space: Muslim Women Negotiating Subjectivity in Sweden

Pia Karlsson Minganti



Chapter 3. Political Muslim Women in the News Media

Rikke Andreassen



Chapter 4. Finding Their Own Way Between Revolutionary Adult Feminism and Well-behaved Veiled Girlhood – Female Migrants in Denmark

Malene Fenger-Grøndahl



Chapter 5. Being a Kurdish Woman in Sweden: Diaspora, Gender and Politics of Belonging

Minoo Alinia



PART II: HOME POLITICS, HOST POLICIES AND RESISTANCE



Chapter 6. Kurdish Women of the Diaspora and Political Participation

Kariane Westrheim



Chapter 7. Territorial Stigmatisation, Inequality of Schooling and Identity Formation Among Young Immigrants

Bolette Moldenhawer



Chapter 8. The Absence of Strategy and the Absence of Bildung – When Integration Policy Cannot Succeed

Tina Kallehave



Notes on Contributors

Index