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Cultural values, moral sentiments and the fashioning of gendered migrant identities

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posted on 2023-06-12, 06:40 authored by Linda MorriceLinda Morrice
The promotion of British cultural values to which all citizens can and should sign up to has taken on unprecedented urgency and momentum in political and public discourses. This paper explores the meanings and values attached to contemporary forms of Britishness from the perspective of migrant refugee women, and outlines the conflicting interpretations and expectations of different projects of feminine citizenship. Drawing on empirical research it suggests that gendered migrant identities and values are formed and performed in relation to real and imagined understanding of British (white) heterosexual women and can be seen, at least in part, as asserting moral value and distinctiveness. The women invoked migrant cultural pride in the form of caring, community, close family ties and heterosexuality to claim recognition and resist the lack of moral value ascribed to migrant identities. However, this is achieved through a re-inscription of gender identities in which heterosexuality and sexual restraint become technologies of regulation and control.

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Cultural Values from the Subaltern Perspective: A Phenomenology of Refugees' Experience of British Cultural Values; G1151; AHRC-ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL; AH/L005409/1

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  • Published

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Journal

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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1369-183X

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

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3

Volume

43

Page range

400-417

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  • Education Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-06-14

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-10-10

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-06-13

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