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Everyday Conversions - Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait (Paperback)
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Everyday Conversions - Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait (Paperback)
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
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Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian
Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya
Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon.
Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women
in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers' Muslim belonging emerges
from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety
in relation-but not opposition-to their existing religious
practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their
conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than
it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In
examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and
Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the
dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of
transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of
everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent
forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging.
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