CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Albakkor, Abduhalim |
|---|---|
| Title | The Changing Role of Gender in the Syrian Diaspora to Germany: Re-configuring Community, Identity and Sexuality through New Policing Mechanisms |
| Summary | This research follows feminist decolonial methodology to express the voices of women refugees, in particular subaltern Syrian refugee women living in diaspora in Germany since 2011. The project draws upon a feminist approach to decolonizing knowledge production in order to center the experiences and narratives of Muslim women refugees who are largely marginalized within the literature on migration history and new forced migrations from the Middle East. I trace the emergence of small diasporic communities in Germany and focus on the narratives of Syrian women and their experiences with respect to the reconfiguration of their communities in diaspora, amidst a plethora of factors that reshape their identities and gender dynamics within their families. My analysis is based on twelve interviews with Syrian women and men from communities in several German cities. I analyze the changes within the diasporic community and the accompanying establishment of social norms that police young members of the community and especially women. These gendered norms intertwine with the Syrian and the German patriarchal norms to generate multi-layered policing mechanisms that target women who disregard societal norms. Nevertheless, I observed patterns of hybrid practices of resistance utilized by women and community members to adjust to the changes in the community and notions of integration, as exemplified by certain practices related to dating, matchmaking, and marriage. |
| Supervisor | Jones-Gailani, Nadia |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/albakkor_abduhalim.pdf |
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