International migration flows have increased at a rapid pace over the past decade and are often accompanied by emergent and evolving global realities, fluid and permeable borders, (re)negotiation of identities and familial bonds, anticipated challenges, as well as unforeseen exigencies. Concomitantly, advances in public health and chronic disease management have resulted in longer lives with an increasing proportion of the global population now 65 years and older. While these demographic shifts have received considerable research attention over the past few decades, little attention has been paid to aging Muslim families and the ways in which they adjust and adapt to shifting global realities and social circumstances. Of the roughly 3.45 million Muslims in the US, nearly six-in-ten US Muslim adults are first-generation Americans. And among US Muslim adults who were born abroad, more immigrate from South Asia (35%) than any other region. This demographic trend, along with the aging of the US population, implies that South Asian Muslims will comprise a large segment of the US population aged 65 years and older in the coming years and greater attention needs to be paid to the lived experiences of mid- to late-life South Asian Muslim families in the US in order to better support their health and social care needs. This qualitative study addresses these issues, specifically focusing on the intersections of faith, culture, gender, age, and immigrant status, as well as intergenerational care and support exchanges within the family, and the ways in which everyday lived experiences and seminal life course events shape processes of meaning-making and sense of self in immigrant South Asian Muslim families. Building on findings from 30 in-depth narrative interviews with three generations of South Asian Muslim women living in the US, and using an intersectional lifecourse perspective, I explore the re-negotiation of familial bonds and the enactment of religious beliefs and practices such as those around filial expectations in a transnational Islamic context. In so doing, I highlight how, for the women in my study, their Islamic faith was a part of both the public sphere and a collective ideology as well as a deeply personal and intimate attachment that provided structure and continuity in their everyday lives. I suggest how attitudes, behaviors, and meaning-making processes related to kin-work and exchanges of support between generations may be shaped by categories of gender, age, time of and since immigration, and degree of religiosity. Finally, I situate these attitudes and behaviors within the broader framework of Islamophobia and salient structural barriers to accessing available health and social support services for immigrant South Asian Muslim women and their families. / Graduate / 2021-12-07

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Neste trabalho procurei analisar as representaÃÃes, as percepÃÃes e as definiÃÃes acerca das prÃticas de polÃticos e de sindicalistas rurais em um pequeno municÃpio do interior do Estado do CearÃ, Aracoiaba. Desenvolvi a pesquisa a partir do exame de algumas categorias nativas utilizadas para classificar as relaÃÃes entre polÃticos, eleitores, sindicalistas e associados. Realizei este trabalho sob a condiÃÃo de pesquisador nativo, procurando tambÃm discutir essa situaÃÃo, uma vez que me encontro, de algum modo, implicado em meio Ãs relaÃÃes locais. Na pesquisa, pude perceber um lugar permeado de tempos, tanto na polÃtica como no sindicato, que sÃo frequentemente associados a atividades, marcando certas prÃticas. TambÃm procurei mapear os lugares morais e analisar reputaÃÃes como forma de apresentar o municÃpio, mas tambÃm para mostrar a inter-relaÃÃo entre o rural e o urbano. Por fim, busquei realizar anÃlises sobre as noÃÃes de âajudaâ e âliberado para votarâ. Pude perceber que elas ajudam a compreender a polÃtica e o sindicalismo para alÃm da concepÃÃo clÃssica do clientelismo, que alÃm de trazer consigo uma dimensÃo normativa, nÃo capta os significados presentes em torno de certas prÃticas, relaÃÃes e trocas de apoio polÃtico-sindicais que acontecem em diferentes âtemposâ, mostrando a complexidade que permeia as adesÃes e a possibilidade de unificaÃÃo do voto nos grupos polÃticos. / This paper tried to analyze the representations, perceptions and definitions about the political and rural union practices in a small town in the state of CearÃ, Aracoiaba. I developed the research from taking some native categories used to classify the relationship between politicians, voters, union members and associates. I performed this work under the native researcher condition, looking also discuss this, since I find myself, somehow implicated in the midst of local relations. In the survey, I could see a place permeated times, both in politics and in the union, which are often associated with activities marking certain practices. Also I tried to map the places moral and analyze reputations as a way to introduce the municipality, but also to show the interrelationship between rural and urban. Finally, I tried to make analyzes of the notions of "help" and "free to vote." I realized that they help to understand the politics and trade unionism beyond the classical conception of patronage, which also brings with it a normative dimension, does not capture the meanings present around certain practices, relationships and exchanges of political and union support that happen in different "times", showing the complexity that permeates the adhesions and the possibility of unification of the vote in political groups.