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Women's agency and citizenship across transnational identities : a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

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This article focuses on agency and citizenship from the point of view of Bangladeshi immigrant women who have been living in UK for the last two generations. They have a transnational identity, living between two cultures, which often have contradictory elements. On the one hand, these women identify themselves as British citizens: a status which provides them with some liberal rights. On the other hand, they practise Bangladeshi culture at home, which often entails patriarchal elements. At the junction of these two identities, religion (Islam) works as a guiding principle, and as a uniting tool in their personal as well as public lives. The present article challenges the notions that immigrant women shaped by Bangladeshi culture are victims of patriarchal ideologies, and that Bangladeshi culture hinders women from development. It rather suggests that it is not Bangladeshi culture or religion that hinders women from exercising agency, but their identity as immigrants.

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Series Title

Gender & Development

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Publisher

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom : Routledge., 2011

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

13552074

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Volume 19, Issue 3, November 2011,pp. 371-381

Subject(s)

Religion
Citizenship Rights
Womens agency and citizenship
Transnational identity

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