%0 Journal Article
%T Religion and Diasporic Dwelling: Algerian Muslim Women in Ireland
%A Yafa Shanneik
%J Religion and Gender
%D 2012
%I Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals
%X This article will look at the different conceptions of ¡®home¡¯ as narrated by Algerian Muslim women living in Ireland. It explores the dynamic processes of their self-identification(s) and their different forms of (re)creation of diasporic home(s) influenced by their religious, cultural, social and economic environment. I will use Thomas A. Tweed¡¯s notion of ¡®crossing and dwelling¡¯ to analyse these essentialized identity constructions that become manifest in Tweed¡¯s four ¡®chronotopes¡¯: the gendered body, the domestic home, the imagined homeland and the transnational and global cosmos. The conscious or unconscious negotiations and implications for belonging to a specific identity or community that can be observed among Algerian women in Ireland will be examined, together with the different pre- and post-migratory social, political and religious factors that influence such negotiations. This ethnographic study is the first of its kind and fills a gap in the study of Muslim migrants in Europe.
%U http://www.religionandgender.org/index.php/rg/article/view/30