The politics of space and place -- Gender and migratory honor -- Traditional marriages and honor -- Transnational endogamy -- Virgins and virtues -- Dishonor and its discontents -- Divorce and singlehood -- Veiling and embodied honor
Summary
Immigrant Moroccan Women in Spain: Honor and Marriage provides an ethnographic study of Moroccan Muslim immigrant women in Spain, capturing the predicaments and strategies they use in their adaptation to Spanish society. Working as domestic workers and agricultural laborers in Spain, Moroccan immigrant women illuminate the problems associated with gender, labor, modernity, and globalization