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dc.contributor.authorJahan, Fatema*
dc.contributor.editorSweetman, Carolineen
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-13T12:40:21Zen
dc.date.available2011-12-13T12:40:21Zen
dc.date.issued2011-11-25en
dc.identifier.issn1355-2074en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13552074.2011.625639
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/196969en
dc.descriptionThis 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. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the <a href="http://www.genderanddevelopment.org">Gender and Development</a> website.en
dc.format.extent10en
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherOxfam GBen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urlhttp://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/womens-agency-and-citizenship-across-transnational-identities-a-case-study-of-t-196969
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectRights
dc.titleWomen's agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UKen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn1364-9221en
dc.identifier.journalGender & Developmenten
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use – can be shared outside Oxfamen
oxfam.subject.countryBangladeshen
oxfam.subject.countryUnited Kingdomen
oxfam.subject.keywordActive citizenship
oxfam.subject.keywordDiscrimination
oxfam.subject.keywordGender and Development Journal
oxfam.subject.keywordGaD
prism.issuenameCitizenshipen
prism.number3en
prism.volume19en
dc.year.issuedate2011en


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