Art, Gender and Migration in the Kurdish Diaspora

This book focuses on the cultural and intellectual activities of Kurdish migrant women through artistic and aesthetic forms of production in Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Using in-depth interviews with over 40 Kurdish women artists, Ozlem Galip examines how artistic, literary and cultural productions, incorporating the fields of film, theatre and music, are articulated within the structures of nation states, leading to the interrogation of the impact of western and local knowledge, patriarchy, the nation-state and globalisation. Galip also analyses how European policies affect the development of cultural engagement of Kurdish migrant women, and how such engagements help these women to integrate into European society.
Examining the gendered experiences of diaspora from all four regions of Kurdistan; Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, this book challenges ideas about gender, migration and art through the lens of women artistic production with a focus on women-led activism and the changing integration and migration policies of Europe.

Özlem Belçim Galip is a researcher in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford and a former Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Imagining Kurdistan: Identity, Culture, and Society (I.B.Tauris, 2015).

Introduction
Chapter One: Migration from a Gender-critical and Postcolonial Feminist Perspective
Chapter Two: Redefining the Kurdish Diaspora in Europe: Politics, Identity and Culture
Chapter Three: Opportunities and Challenges for Kurdish Women Artists and Activists in Sweden
Chapter Four: Citizenship, Identity and Boundaries in the United Kingdom: Integration or Cultural Assimilation?
Chapter Five: Art and Activism by Kurdish Women Intelligentsia in Germany: Counter-cultural Voice within Hegemonic Politics
Chapter Six: Shifting Spaces and Gender Dynamics in France: The Aesthetic of Becoming In(visible)
Chapter Seven: Female but Foreign: Race, Gender and Exclusion in Belgium
Conclusion
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