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This book examines violence against women in the name of honor in Iraqi Kurdistan, taking an intersectional perspective. It reveals the links between destructive, state-sanctioned honor discourse and notions of manhood as they are shaped by a resistance culture dedicated to the struggle against ethnic oppression

Examining violence against women in the name of honor in Iraqi Kurdistan, this study renders a unique contribution by offering an intersectional perspective. Minoo Alinia reveals the links between destructive, state-sanctioned honor discourse and notions of manhood as they are shaped by a resistance culture dedicated to the struggle against ethnic oppression. Supplying socioeconomic, historical, and political contexts, this book challenges explanations rooted in ideas of individual or cultural pathology. It demonstrates that, in Iraqi Kurdistan, women's bodies have become the battleground for clashes between different masculinities, identity politics, and political projects.

This article discusses the Swedish government's policy document on a feministpolicy to reduce and prevent men's violence against women. Permeated byracial ignorance and politics of difference this document systematically andconsistently excludes and ignores racial and ethnic power structures and theirconsequences in migrant minorities' daily lives and experience. The articleraises questions about why some knowledge is silenced or abandoned whilesome is embraced and encouraged. Within a wider intersectional framework,and through critical race theory and ignorance studies, it investigates theknowledge produced in the government document and the way itreproduces, maintains, and normalizes racial otherness and social exclusion.

"Die Autorin untersucht geschlechtsspezifische Einflüsse auf die Bildung nationaler Identität in der kurdischen Diaspora in Göteborg (Schweden). Dabei kommt sie zu dem Ergebnis, dass Männer sich in der kurdischen Community und ihren (politischen) Institutionen engagieren, um sich 'alternative öffentliche Räume' zu schaffen - sie reagieren so auf Ausgrenzung und Marginalisierung, die sie als Migranten erfahren. Frauen hingegen fühlen sich zwar der kurdischen Community einerseits zugehörig, andererseits hat diese ihnen jedoch kaum etwas zu bieten. Das Fortbestehen traditioneller hierarchischer Strukturen verweist sie, wie schon in den Herkunftsländern, in die zweite Reihe, die Communityinstitutionen eröffnen ihnen nicht dieselben Spielräume wie Männern. Vor diesem Hintergrund, so die Autorin, sind Frauen eher bereit, sich an die neue, schwedische Gesellschaft, die ihnen aufgrund ihrer weniger rigiden Geschlechtertrennung größere Entwicklungsperspektiven eröffnet, anzupassen. Eine Haltung, die ihnen vonseiten kurdischer Nationalist/inn/en wiederum vorgehalten werden dürfte." (Textauszug)

The purpose of this article is to examine the experiences of two generations among the Kurdish diaspora in Sweden: those who migrated as adults and those who were born and/or raised in Sweden. The focus will be on issues of identity, home(land) and politics of belonging with regard to generational and temporal aspects. We will argue that there are significant differences among the older and younger generations with regard to their experiences that demand different theoretical and analytical conceptualisations.

The purpose of this article is to examine the experiences of two generations among the Kurdish diaspora in Sweden: those who migrated as adults and those who were born and/or raised in Sweden. The focus will be on issues of identity, home(land) and politics of belonging with regard to generational and temporal aspects. We will argue that there are significant differences among the older and younger generations with regard to their experiences that demand different theoretical and analytical conceptualisations.