Qureshi Marital Breakdown among British Asians

Conjugality, Legal Pluralism and New Kinship
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-57047-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 315 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

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 the embeddedness of couples in extended family relations, whilst at the same time showing that Pakistani marriages and divorces do not deviate in all respects from wider marital separation trajectories in Britain. Providing new insights into how marital breakdown is changing the contours of British Asian families, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students, clinicians working in couple or family therapy, social workers and legal practitioners.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Qureshi, Kaveri

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Part I: Grounds for conflict.- 1. Storying marital conflict.- 2. Explanations for divorce.- Part II: Staying together.- 3. Family mediation4 Estrangements, separations and yoyo marriages.- Part III: Splitting up.- 5. Sharia.- 6.-  English law.- Part IV: Rebuilding families.- 7.-  Staying single.- 8.-  Remarriage.- 9. Children and stepfamilies.- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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.