The Egyptian Sisters Club: negotiating community and identity in a time of conflict

Autor:	Andrea Wenzel, Yomna Elsayed
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Cultural Studies 060101 anthropology Islamophobia Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Participant observation Focus group Diaspora Politics Group cohesiveness Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology 0601 history and archaeology Club Sociology Qualitative research
Zdroj:	Identities. 25:85-103
ISSN:	1547-3384 1070-289X
DOI:	10.1080/1070289x.2016.1208098
Popis:	On the screens of televisions and computers in their California homes, the women of the Egyptian Sisters Club (ESC) have witnessed the unfolding of political crisis and the unravelling of certainty about the meaning of ‘home’. Drawing from concepts of diaspora and social support, the study explores how the ESC, an informal group of young Egyptian mothers living in Southern California, maintains cohesion in a time of conflict in their home country, and hostility towards visibly Muslim women in their host country. This qualitative study draws from participant observation, interviews and focus groups over a period of 9 months in 2014. Findings, largely expressed in members’ own words, suggest that despite heterogeneous perspectives and subjective motives, participants largely negotiate a prioritization of cultural values over political differences. This case offers insights into how local context and life stages influence how diaspora members adapt to contentious home and host country politics.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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