TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mehdi,Rubya
TI  - Understanding Gender and Diversity in Europe: Experiences of Migrant Single Mothers in Denmark 
SN  - 9783031408939
U1  - 340,115 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Law and the social sciences
KW  - Sex
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Social groups
KW  - Socio-Legal Studies
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Sociocultural Anthropology
KW  - Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging
N1  - Prologue/Introduction -- Relational-collectivism and Individualism: Framing of Mélange Familism -- Danish-Pakistani Single Women: A way of life -- Mélange Legalism: Law in the everyday Lives of Single Women -- Divorcees -- Widows -- Never-Married -- Single Women in Later Lives -- Conclusions and Perspectives -- Epilogue -- Bibliography
N2  - This book is a socio-legal interdisciplinary study on gender and diversity in multicultural societies of Europe. It uses secondary data to discuss the broad experiences of migrant single mothers/women in Europe. Second, it includes narratives of experiences across the life course of single Danish-Pakistani women, starting from their pre-migration background to their elderly lives. The author uses an analytical framework used of relational collectivism and individualism, the former referring to the understanding of oneself as connected and interdependent to the family, and the latter referring to values of independence, personal interest and achievements. She uses the term "mélange familism" to explain a new family type that combines both relational-collectivist and individualist elements. A major part of this work is its deliberation of mélange familism and processes of social and legal practices in the everyday lives of single mothers. Crucially, the book demonstrates that social andlegal traditions are not static, but are a product of improvisation. It makes a significant contribution by providing an alternate picture of single women/mothers as against the stereotypical image of 'passive, subordinate Muslim women'. It also contributes to gender and family studies by showing the increasing establishment of single-mother-headed households as a source of new possibilities; a new type or form of family construction, and not just the tragic residue of a broken two-parent family
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40893-9
ER  -