Young Afghan-Canadian Women’s Negotiations of Gendered Cultural Scripts and Hybrid Cultural Identities

IF 0.2 Q4 WOMENS STUDIES
Saher Ahmed, Amrita Hari
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Abstract A hybrid identity is neither a happy nor an undesirable mixture; it involves negotiating sometimes two contrasting cultural identities of the home and host nations. Research on post-migratory negotiations of gender identity, roles, and expectations has found that partner selection and marriage are significant cultural practices in a diasporic context. In this study, the authors contribute to two sets of literatures: studies on the lived experiences of Afghan-Canadian migrant and refugee women and postcolonial debates on cultural hybridity. The authors employ in-depth feminist interviews to reveal second-generation Afghan-Canadian women’s gendered negotiations of partner-selection practices and marital ceremonies, including their resistance and conformity to these practices through the mobilization of their hybrid diasporic identities. Overall, the study design allows the authors to situate the voices of young Afghan women at the forefront.
年轻的阿富汗-加拿大妇女对性别文化脚本和混合文化身份的谈判
混合身份既不是令人愉快的混合物,也不是不受欢迎的混合物;它有时涉及到对母国和东道国两种截然不同的文化认同进行谈判。对移民后性别认同、角色和期望谈判的研究发现,伴侣选择和婚姻是散居背景下重要的文化实践。在这项研究中,作者对两组文献做出了贡献:对阿富汗-加拿大移民和难民妇女的生活经历的研究和对文化杂糅的后殖民辩论。作者采用深入的女权主义访谈,揭示了第二代阿富汗-加拿大女性在伴侣选择实践和婚姻仪式上的性别谈判,包括她们通过动员她们的混合散居身份对这些实践的抵制和遵从。总体而言,研究设计允许作者将年轻阿富汗妇女的声音置于最前沿。
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