'Brothers' or Others?: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in EgyptBerghahn Books, 1. 3. 2008 - Počet stran: 204 Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as "brothers" in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt have underscored the precarious legal status of Sudanese in Cairo. Neither citizens nor foreigners, they are in an uncertain position, created in part through an unusual ethnic discourse which does not draw principally on obvious characteristics of difference. This rich ethnographic study shows instead that Sudanese ethnic identity is created from deeply held social values, especially those concerning gender and propriety, shared by Sudanese and Egyptian communities. The resulting ethnic identity is ambiguous and flexible, allowing Sudanese to voice their frustrations and make claims for their own uniqueness while acknowledging the identity that they share with the dominant Egyptian community. |
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... labour migrants and their families whose presence in Egypt dates to the 1940s as nāsal-jāliya, 'expatriate people'. Correspondingly, expatriates term participants in the most recent wave of displacement of the 1990s as nās al-mu'ārida ...
... labour markets people from widely different backgrounds (pilgrims of West African descent, Arab migrant labour) were regarded as 'ethnics' of a different sort as their former tribal identities fell away. Ethnicity conceived of in this ...
... labour market, do not pay taxes, do not serve in the army or do national service, and essentially live outside the expectations of citizenship as far as the state is concerned. At the same time, they are subject to state control and ...
... labour migration, new technologies, and ideologies of social change, 'traditional' roles men and women play may change in subtle or dramatic ways. The literature on gender and migration in the Arab world illustrates the various and ...
... labour migrants outside Egypt, only coming to Cairo intermittently on family visits. Thus, over the course of my fieldwork, I spent the least amount of time with expatriate men. With the exception of Sudanese public figures in Cairo ...
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Part IIModernity and Otherness | 51 |
Chapter 3Creating Foreigners Becoming Exiles | 53 |
Chapter 4Presenting Sudanese Differences | 77 |
Part IIINeither Brothers nor Others | 95 |
Chapter 5Muslim Arab Adab and Sudanese Ethnicity | 97 |
Chapter 6A Sudanese Culture of Exile in Cairo | 121 |
Chapter 7Gender Diaspora and Transformation | 151 |
Bibliography | 171 |
Index | 179 |
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