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Marital Breakdown among British Asians: Conjugality, Legal Pluralism and New Kinship
Kaveri Qureshi
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Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 341 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; JFSL3; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
Shortlisted for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017 Against long-standing characterizations of British Asians as `flying the flag' for traditional life, this book identifies an increase in marital breakdown and argues to reorient debates about conservatism and authoritarianism in British Asian families. Qureshi draws on a rich ethnographic study of marital breakdown among working class Pakistani Muslims in order to unpick the grounds of marital conflict, the manoeuvres couples undertake in staying together, their interactions with divorce laws and their moral reasonings about post-divorce family life. Marital Breakdown among British Asians argues against individualization approaches, demonstrating ... Read more
Shortlisted for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017 Against long-standing characterizations of British Asians as `flying the flag' for traditional life, this book identifies an increase in marital breakdown and argues to reorient debates about conservatism and authoritarianism in British Asian families. Qureshi draws on a rich ethnographic study of marital breakdown among working class Pakistani Muslims in order to unpick the grounds of marital conflict, the manoeuvres couples undertake in staying together, their interactions with divorce laws and their moral reasonings about post-divorce family life. Marital Breakdown among British Asians argues against individualization approaches, demonstrating ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137570468
SKU
V9781137570468
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About Kaveri Qureshi
Kaveri Qureshi is Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests include migration, gender, family life, and how people deal with transitions.
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