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Immigrant Moroccan Women in Spain: Honor and Marriage provides an
ethnographic study of Moroccan Muslim immigrant women in Spain that
captures the predicaments and strategies used in their adaptation
to Spanish society. Moroccan immigrant women s social and emotional
connections to honor and duty affect familial relations, identity,
and the sense of belonging. Although the women have kept
transnational ties to friends and families Morocco, the
establishment of new relationships and networks presents them with
information, ideas, and opportunities that result in a complex
process of altering their imported ideas and practices. This book
also reveals and explores the geopolitical tension that affects
these women s interactions and negotiations with various Spanish
institutions and how the representations of Islam affect the
Spanish reception and treatment of Moroccans. Working as domestic
workers and agricultural laborers in Spain, Moroccan immigrant
women illuminate the problems associated with gender, labor,
modernity, and globalization.
Immigrant Moroccan Women in Spain: Honor and Marriage provides an
ethnographic study of Moroccan Muslim immigrant women in Spain that
captures the predicaments and strategies used in their adaptation
to Spanish society. Moroccan immigrant women's social and emotional
connections to honor and duty affect familial relations, identity,
and the sense of belonging. Although the women have kept
transnational ties to friends and families Morocco, the
establishment of new relationships and networks presents them with
information, ideas, and opportunities that result in a complex
process of altering their imported ideas and practices. This book
also reveals and explores the geopolitical tension that affects
these women's interactions and negotiations with various Spanish
institutions and how the representations of Islam affect the
Spanish reception and treatment of Moroccans. Working as domestic
workers and agricultural laborers in Spain, Moroccan immigrant
women illuminate the problems associated with gender, labor,
modernity, and globalization.
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