Intersectionality, Class and Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women Migrants in the U.K.

ISBN-13: 9781137525291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 193 str.

Mastoureh Fathi

Opis

This book offers critical analysis of everyday narratives of Iranian middle class migrants who use their social class and careers to "fit in" with British society.

Recenzje

"Fathi's work is of particular interest to anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists and other social scientists interested in transnational migration, class, race, gender, citizenship and intersectionality. Her work is particularly interesting too, to those social scientists, who are intrigued by the messiness and complexity of social life, as well as the possibility of 'studying up' within migrant communities." (Joy Owen, Nordic Journal of Migration Research NJMR, Vol. 09 (1), 2019)

Spis treści

Series Introduction—Nira Yuval-Davis

 

1. Class, intersectionality and Iranian diaspora

1.1 Iranian women’s employment and class

1.2 Iranian migrants and social class

1.3 Making sense of class in migration: co-constructing narratives

1.4 Iranian parties, concerts and doctors’ hubs

1.5 Religion, an absent theme in class stories

1.6 Outline of the book

 

2. Intersectionality and Translocational Class

2.1 Classic literature of class and the question of intersectionality

2.1.1Marxism and class

2.1.2 Status and class

2.1.3 The cultural turn to class

2.2 Intersectionality and the treatment of class

2.2.1 Situated intersectionality

2.2.2 Power relations and intersectionality

2.2.3 Privileged position and intersectionality

2.3 Identity and translocational positionality

2.3.1 Translocational class

2.4 Conclusion

 

3. Classed and Gendered Growing up

3.1 Educational surveillance

3.1.1 Creating ambition: Passing on class to the girls

3.1.2 Mothers and class surveillance

3.1.3 Lack of choice or destined pathways?

3.1.4 Governing the ambition

3.2 Normalisation of the pathways

3.2.1 Lack of ambition as deviant

3.2.2 Not discussing class to construct classed identity

3.2.3 Embarrassment and normalisation

3.2.4 Westernisation as a ‘normal’ pathway

3.3 The making of a moral self

3.3.1 Respect

3.4 Conclusion

 

4. Classed Place-making

4.1 Diasporic spaces

4.2 Countries

4.3 Schools

4.4 Neighbourhoods

4.5 Spatial class: a conclusion

 

 5. Classed Performing

5.1 Class-coded acts

5.1.1 Class and performance: a delicate relationship

5.1.2 Performing class-coded acts

<5.2 Feminine doctors: femininity and educational capital

5.2.1 ‘Owning’ the doctor’s role: being authentic

5.2.2 Classed performance and morality<

            5.3 Compulsory Class

5.3.1 Imagined images, real differences

5.4 Translocational class performances: a conclusion

 

6. Classed Racialisation

6.1 Being racialised

6.2 Racialising others

6.3 Racialisation in class construction

6.4 Conclusion

 

7. Classed Belonging

7.1 Foreignness, power and class

7.1.1 Is there a glass ceiling in British society?

7.1.2 ‘I make here my soil. I make here my country’

7.2 ‘Others’ and the hierarchies of belonging

7.2.1 ‘Deserving’ to belong

7.3 Conclusion

 

8. Understanding Class Intersectionally: A Way Forward

8.1 Situated understanding of class <8.2 Intersectionality and class

8.3 Social locations, relations and localities

8.4 Complexity of social class

 

O autorze

Mastoureh Fathi is Lecturer in Sociology at Bournemouth University, UK. She has published on the topics of belonging, gender, education and social class among migrants. She is a narrative researcher with an interest in Muslim migrants, and their everyday experiences of life in Western countries. Her current research looks at the intersection of religion, gender and parenting.  

Blurb

This book offers critical analysis of everyday narratives of Iranian middle class migrants who use their social class and careers to "fit in" with British society.  Based on a series of interviews and participant observations with two cohorts of "privileged" Iranian migrant women working as doctors, dentists and academics in Britain—groups that are usually absent from studies around migration, marginality and intersectionality—the book applies narrative analysis and intersectionality to critically analyse social class in relation to gender, ethnicity, places and sense of belonging in Britain. As concepts such as "Nation," "Migrant," "Native," "Other," "Security," and "Border" have populated public and policy discourse, it is vital to explore migrants’ experiences and perceptions of the society in which they live, to answer deceptively simple questions such as ​"What does class mean?" and "How is class translated in the lives of migrants?"