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).

• List of Illustrations 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 as Third Space? Muslim Women Activists 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-Grondahl 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

"The anthology provides careful analysis based on rich empirical material that illuminates the complexity of the region (and of the migration processes that have occurred in the last thirty years) represented and acted upon as the Nordic - [Its] strength lies in its ability to pose central research questions at the crossroad between the making of the 'Nordic' and the original ways through which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation-state. This ability to move between the local and the global through original and reflexive methodologies locates the anthology's work within a broader international scholarship." * Diana Mulinari, Center for Gender Studies, University of Lund