Art, Gender and Migration in the Kurdish Diaspora

Özlem Belçim Galip is a researcher in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford and a former Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Imagining Kurdistan: Identity, Culture, and Society (I.B.Tauris, 2015).

• Introduction: Art, Gender and MigrationPART I: Theory, Concepts and Methods 1. Migration from Gender-critical and Postcolonial Feminist Approach 2. Redefining the Kurdish Diaspora in Europe: Kinship, Identity and Culture PART II: The Politics of Agency and Exclusion 3. “Talent has no race, has no face - but it has a skin colour”: Opportunities and Challenges for Kurdish women artists in Sweden 4. Citizenship, Identity and Boundaries in The United Kingdom: Integration or Cultural assimilation? 5. Art and Activism by Kurdish women intelligentsia in Germany: Counter-cultural voice within hegemonic politics PART III: From Colour Blindness to Blindness to the Colours 6. Shifting Spaces and Gender Dynamics in France: The Aesthetic of Becoming in(visible) 7. Female but Foreign: Race, Gender and Exclusion in Belgium Conclusion: A Comparative Analysis

Shedding light on aesthetic and intellectual work among Kurdish women in five European countries, this book contributes to the widening of our understanding of how Kurdish women engage in society in Europe as women and as intellectuals. It also contributes to our understanding of variations across countries as well as similarities and transnational links.