Ahmad Attiya Ahmad

Everyday Conversions (eBook, PDF)

Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait

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Produktbeschreibung

Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon. Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers' Muslim belonging emerges from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety in relation-but not opposition-to their existing religious practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373223
• Artikelnr.: 54662865

Autorenporträt

Attiya Ahmad is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Everyday Conversions  1
1. Temporariness  37
2. Suspension  67
3. Naram  101
4. Housetalk  124
5. Fitra  157
Epilogue. Ongoing Conversions  191
Appendix 1. Notes on Fieldwork  201
Appendix 2. Interlocutors' Names and Connections to One Another  207
Glossary  211
Notes  219
References  245
Index  265