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Limits of Conversion: Islamic Dawa, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait

<p>Tens of thousands of migrant domestic workers, women working and residing within Kuwaiti households, have taken shehadeh, the Islamic testament of faith over the past decade. Drawing on 21 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Kuwait, and 2 months of research in Nepal, this dissertation analyzes the processes through which South Asian domestic workers develop newfound Islamic pieties, processes that underscore the importance of the household as a site of intersection between transnational migration and globalizing Islamic movements, and that point to the limitation of conventional understandings of wage labour and religious conversion.</p> / Dissertation

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DUKE/oai:dukespace.lib.duke.edu:10161/1625
Date January 2009
CreatorsAhmad, Attiya
ContributorsEwing, Katherine P., Nelson, Diane M.
Source SetsDuke University
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDissertation
Format1021220 bytes, application/pdf

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