Masculinity in the Sikh Community in Italy and Spain: Expectations and Challenges

Autor: Nachatter Singh Garha
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Religions, Vol 11, Iss 2, p 76 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2077-1444
DOI: 10.3390/rel11020076
Popis: Since the 1990s, the Sikh community in India has entered a phase of considerable socioeconomic and demographic transformation that is caused by the large-scale practice of female feticide, the spread of higher education among women, and the mass emigration of unskilled men to the Western countries. These changes have a great impact on the traditional configuration of gender roles and disrupt the construction of masculinity in the Sikh community in India and in the diaspora. Based on ethnographic observations and 64 in-depth interviews with Sikh immigrants in Spain (26) and Italy (22) and their relatives in India (16), this paper first explores the expectations of masculinity in the Sikh community in Italy and Spain; and second, analyses the challenges that are imposed by the socioeconomic and demographic transformation in the Indian Sikh community and the social environment in the host countries on the construction of masculinity in the Sikh community in both countries.
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