‘Be true to your culture’: Gender tensions among Somali Muslims in Britain

Abstract

This article explores the manner by which Somali Muslim women in London's East End negotiate their gender, ethnic and religious identities along paths which are meaningful to their way of life as economic migrants or refugees in Britain, and which at times may lead to tensions between the sexes. Such negotiation largely refutes the image of passive Muslim women confined to the role of mere spectators, rather than playing an active part in defining patterns of female adaptive behaviour deemed appropriate to the situational context of life in Britain.

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