 | ISBN: 978-0-97028-385-6 $22.50 | |
| 2005/169 pages Distributed for the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego | ||
The authors find that the Muslim women typically are viewed as "stepdaughters" by the society in which they reside—and often by their communities of origin, as well. They also critically assess the potential within the host society for successfully counteracting both the gender-based and the ethno-religious discrimination to which the women are subject.
"This book goes a long way in challenging ... simplistic depictions through analyzing the diversity within the Muslim community, and amongst Muslim women's life-worlds.... The issues discussed are not restricted to the Spanish context, and so provide fodder for discussion on the status of immigrant Muslim women throughout the Western world."—Helen Vallianatos, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
"This richly nuanced study of the forms and sources of discrimination [will] inform the debate about Islam across Europe and beyond."—Antonio Isquierdo, Universidad da Coruña, Spain